Carl Gillett / Barry Loewer (eds.)

Physicalism and Its Discontents

Herausgeber: Gillett, Carl; Loewer, Barry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of new essays by physicalists and their critics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780521801751
• ISBN-10: 0521801753
• Artikelnr.: 21766379

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Preface
Part I. Physicalism: 1. The rise of physicalism David Papineau
2. From physics to physicalism Barry Loewer
3. Sufficiency claims and physicalism: a formulation D. Gene Witmer
4. Realization and mental causation Sydney Shoemaker
5. Physicalism and psychology: a plea for a substantive philosophy of mind Georges Rey
6. Davidson and non-reductive materialism: a tale of two cultures Howard Robinson
7. Substance physicalism Noa Latham
8. Possibility: physical and metaphysical Stephen Leeds
Part II. Physicalist Discontents: 9. The roots of reductionism Scott Sturgeon
10. The significance of emergence Tim Crane
11. The methodological role of physicalism: a minimal scepticism Carl Gillett
12. Physicalism, empiricism and positivism Gary Gates
Part III. Physicalism and Consciousness: A Continuing Dialectic
Section 1. Arguments for Pessimism: 13. Mental causation and consciousness: the two mind-body problems for the physicalist Jaegwon Kim
14. How not to solve the mind-body problem Colin McGinn
15. Deconstructing new wave materialism Terence Horgan and John Tienson
Section 2. Optimistic Rejoinders: 16. In defense of new wave materialism: a response to Horgan and Tienson Brian P. McLaughlin
17. Physicalism unfalsified: Chalmer's inconclusive conceivability argument Andrew Melnyk
References
Index.