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Being reduced : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation / edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hohwy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Mind and body.
- Reductionism.
- Materialism.
- Brain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- New essays on reduction, explanation, and causation
- Reduction, explanation, and causation
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? Being Reduced attempts to understand these questions.
- Contents:
- Reduction and embodied cognition : perspectives from medicine and psychiatry / Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn W. Stewart
- Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle
- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit
- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? / Jaegwon Kim
- CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism / Peter Lipton
- Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist? / David Papineau
- Why there is anything except physics? / Barry Loewer
- Multiple realization : keeping it real / Louise M. Antony
- Causation and determinable properties : on the efficacy of colour, shape, and size / Tim Crane
- The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation / Peter Menzies
- Mental causation and neural mechanisms / James Woodward
- Distinctions in distinction / Daniel Stoljar
- Exclusion again / Karen Bennett.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780191549557
- 019154955X
- 9786611825478
- 1-281-82547-6
- 0-19-154955-X
- 0-19-170597-7
- OCLC:
- 458705795
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