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Being reduced : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation / edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hohwy
Contributor:
Hohwy, Jakob, editor.
Kallestrup, Jesper, editor.
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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