Identity, cause, and mind : philosophical essays
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Identity, cause, and mind : philosophical essays
Clarendon Press, c2003
Expanded ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [452]-458) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780199264698
Description
An expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984, "Identity, Cause, and Mind" is aimed at philosophers and students alike.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1. Self-reference and self-awareness
- 2. Persons and their pasts
- 3. Time without change
- 4. On projecting the unprojectible
- 5. Conceptual connections and other minds
- 6. Embodiment and behavior
- 7. Immortality and dualism
- 8. Phenomenal similarity
- 9. Functionalism and qualia
- 10. Causality and properties
- 11. Identity, properties, and causality
- 12. Some varieties of functionalism
- 13. On an argument for dualism
- 14. Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block
- 15. The inverted spectrum
- 16. On what there are
- 17. Self and substance
- 18. Causal and metaphysical necessity
- 19. Realization and mental causation
- References
- Index
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780199264704
Description
This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. It reproduces all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and includes four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984. Themes include the nature of self-knowledge and self-reference, personal identity, persistence over time, properties, mental states, and perceptual experience.
A number of the papers, including 'Self-Reference and Self-Awareness', 'Persons and Their Pasts', 'Causality and Properties', and 'The Inverted Spectrum', have remained at the centre of discussion of their topics. Several of the essays in the original collection discuss the ways in which causal considerations enter into the individuation of properties, and three of the added essays - 'Causal and Metaphysical Necessity', 'Realization and Mental Causation', and 'On What There Are' - deal with
related themes. The neo-Lockean view of personal identity presented in 'Persons and Their Pasts' is developed with a different emphasis in the added paper 'Self and Substance'.
Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by scholars and students alike.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- 1. Self-reference and self-awareness
- 2. Persons and their pasts
- 3. Time without change
- 4. On projecting the unprojectible
- 5. Conceptual connections and other minds
- 6. Embodiment and behavior
- 7. Immortality and dualism
- 8. Phenomenal similarity
- 9. Functionalism and qualia
- 10. Causality and properties
- 11. Identity, properties, and causality
- 12. Some varieties of functionalism
- 13. On an argument for dualism
- 14. Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block
- 15. The inverted spectrum
- 16. On what there are
- 17. Self and substance
- 18. Causal and metaphysical necessity
- 19. Realization and mental causation
- References
- Index
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