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1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Brain.
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brains.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Brain
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Philosophy of mind
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Medvetandefilosofi.
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Analytisk filosofi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hohwy, Jakob.
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Kallestrup, Jesper.
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| LC no. |
2008016747 |
| ISBN |
0199211531 |
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9780199211531 |
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019154955X |
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9780191549557 |
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1281825476 |
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9781281825476 |
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9780191705977 |
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0191705977 |
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9786611825478 |
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6611825479 |
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