The Nature of True Minds
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 September 1992
- ISBN 9780521424004
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 217x139x17 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This work proposes a way to a naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the physical world alongside the non-mental.
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This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently non-natural powers of thought. The difficulty is to understand how our mental capacities, no less than our biological or chemical characteristics, might ultimately be products of our fundamental physical constituents, and to do so in a way that preserves the phenomena. Externalists argue that the significance of thought turns on the circumstances of thinkers; reductionists hold that mental characteristics are physical; eliminationists contend that the concept of thought belongs to an outmoded folk theory of behavior. John Heil explores these topics and points the way to a naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the physical world alongside the non-mental.
"I cannot overstate my admiration for the thought and craftsmanship that have gone into this book, which at once serves to focus and advance current debates and also to provide an invaluable route of access to those debates for students." E.J. Lowe, Philosophical Books
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The legacy of Cartesianism; 3. Supervenience; 4. Mental causation; 5. Privileged access; 6. Talk and thought; 7. The nature of true minds.
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