Robert Hanna, Michelle Maiese

Embodied Minds in Action

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Embodied Minds in Action works out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. Hanna and Maiese offer a new paradigm for contemporary mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780199230310
• ISBN-10: 0199230315
• Artikelnr.: 26366423

Autorenporträt

Robert Hanna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (OUP, 2001), Kant, Science, and Human Nature (OUP, 2006), and Rationality and Logic (MIT, 2006). Michelle Maiese is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emmanuel College, Boston. Her research focuses on issues in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and the emotions.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Consciousnesslo and Essential Embodiment I: The Basics
2: Consciousnesslo and Essential Embodiment II: Types and Structures
3: Essentially Embodied Agency I: Actions, Causes, Reasons
4: Essentially Embodied Agency II: Guidance and Trying
5: Essentially Embodied Agency III: Emotive Causation
6: The Metaphysics of Agency I: The Problem of Mental Causation
7: The Metaphysics of Agency II: And How to Solve It
8: The Metaphysics of Agency III: Where the Action Is
Bibliography