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The ontology of mind : events, processes, and states / Helen Steward.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Steward, Helen, author.
Series:
Oxford philosophical monographs.
Oxford philosophical monographs
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Philosophy of mind.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 276 pages).
Other Title:
Events, processes, and states
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Clarendon, 1997.
Summary:
Steward puts forward a radical critique of the foundations of contemporary philosophy of mind, arguing that it relies too heavily on insecure assumptions about the nature of some of the sorts of mental entities it postulates.
Contents:
Events and Processes
Events, Particularity, and Properties
Kim: Exemplifications of Properties at Times
Property Exemplifications and Theories of Mind
Particularity and the Secret Life Requirement
Bennett: Events as Tropes
Bennett's Argument against Anomalous Monism
Events as Changes
Happenings
Events as Changes in Objects
Is there a Motivation for the RCO?
Composite Events and the Composition Relation
Are there Changeless Events?
States and Change
The Temporal Strategy: Time and Aspect
Vendler and Kenny
Types of Verb versus Types of Predication
Aspect
Nominalization Transcriptions: Events and Processes
Non-paradigmatic Events
Event and Process as Ontological Categories
Temporal Shape
States, Causation, and Causal Explanation
States and the Type-Token Distinction
States and Properties
Nominalization Transcriptions: States
The 'State of ... ' Locution
The Type-Token Distinction
Token States in Philosophy of Mind
Particulars, Facts, and Causal Explanations
Forms of Causal Explanation
Singular Causal Claims
Sentential Causal Explanations
The Existential Generalization Account
Causation and Causal Explanation
Efficacy, Causing, and Relevance
Child on Causation and Causal Explanation
Program and Process Explanations
Sentential Explanations as Program Explanations
Why there are no Causally Efficacious Properties
States and Causality in Philosophy of Mind
The Network Model of Causation in Philosophy of Mind.
Notes:
Based on author's doctoral thesis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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