The nature of true minds

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The nature of true minds

John Heil

(Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa)

Cambridge University Press, 1992

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA1923132X
  • ISBN
    • 0521413370
    • 0521424003
  • LCCN
    91044335
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 248 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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