Naturally minded : mental causation, virtual machines, and maps
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Naturally minded : mental causation, virtual machines, and maps
（New directions in philosophy and cognitive science）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book is an empirically informed investigation of the philosophical problem of mental causation, and a philosophical investigation of the status of cognitive scientific generalisations. If there are mental causes which can be classified in a way useful for predicting and explaining, then they are natural kinds. First. we develop an account of natural kinds that accommodates the cognitive. Second, we show how statements using these are not reducible to statements about physical kinds, involving biological and social facts. Finally, Virtual Machine Functionalism is defended as the correct account of the relationship between cognition and the material world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Natural Kinds3. Physicalist Reductionism4. Causal Explanations5. Kinds of Mental Content6. Embodied Agents7. Physically Embodied Minds8. Natural Minds9. Conclusion
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