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Steven Horst

Beyond Reduction

Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science

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Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus been a major cause of concern in recent philosophy of mind. Reductionists hold that, despite all appearances, the mind can be reduced to the brain. Eliminativists hold that it cannot, and that this implies that there is something illegitimate about the mentalistic vocabulary. Dualists hold that the mental is irreducible, and that this implies either… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-804315-7
  • EAN: 9780198043157
  • Produktnummer: 13900638
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'084 KB

Über den Autor


Steven Horst is Chair, Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University; author of Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality: A Critique of the Computational Theory of Mind and Laws, Mind, and Free Will.

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