The mind in nature / C.B. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, C. B. (Charles Burton), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Philosophy of mind.

Disposition (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press ; Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that 'all things that exist are only particulars', and argues thatproperties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of causation,

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Dispositions and conditionals; 3. Truthmakers and disposition lines: From quark to colleague; 4. Parts and wholes; 5. Causality; 6. The road to Pythagoreanism and back; 7. Linguisticism and Pythagoreanism; 8. Protolanguage; 9. Use, representational use, and content; 10. Emergence, reduction, mental chauvinism; 11. Dispositional systems; 12. Two jokes explained; 13. Tactile-motor-kinaesthetic perception; 14. Verbal imagery; 15. Mind in nature: A new view of the mind; 16. Warps and woofs of Einstein.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-281-15055-X

9786611150556

0-19-152852-8

OCLC:

648361111