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Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Supervenience and Materialism written by Mark Rowlands and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521439961
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Supervenience and Mind written by Jaegwon Kim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents the core of the work of influential philosopher Jaegwon Kim.
Author : Andrew Melnyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139442279
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book A Physicalist Manifesto written by Andrew Melnyk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best formulated by appeal to a carefully worked-out notion of realization, rather than supervenience; that, so formulated, physicalism must be importantly reductionist; that it need not repudiate causal and explanatory claims framed in non-physical language; and that it has the a posteriori epistemic status of a broad-scope scientific hypothesis. Two concluding chapters argue in detail that contemporary science provides no significant empirical evidence against physicalism and some considerable evidence for it. Written in a brisk, candid and exceptionally clear style, this 2003 book should appeal to professionals and students in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of science.
Author : Malcolm Rogge
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Historical Materialism and the Concept of Supervenience written by Malcolm Rogge and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author applies the concept of supervenience in contemporary metaphysics to Marx's foundational proposition that the relations of production in a society “correspond” to the underlying forces of production. The author proposes that this correspondence relation be regarded as Marxian supervenience. The author draws on Gerald Cohen's analytical breakdown of Marx's theory of history and on Jaegwon Kim's formulations of strong and weak supervenience to show how the concept of strong supervenience is most useful for interpreting Marx's primacy thesis. While no position is advanced here about whether the theory of historical materialism is true or not, the author provides a tool that can be used for developing a clearer conception of Marx's foundational construct. By employing the concept of Marxian supervenience as an interpretive tool, it might be possible to uncover critical problems or advantages for the theory; it might also be possible to develop a clearer understanding of how to find evidence for the truth or falsity of historical materialism. The results of such efforts could find practical application in the fields of political philosophy, political science, legal science, political history, ethics and sociology.
Author : Robert C. Koons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614017
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Waning of Materialism written by Robert C. Koons and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defences of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and Chalmers, Jackson’s knowledge argument, Kim’s exclusion problem, and Burge’s anti-individualism all play a part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the materialist research program. Several papers address the implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of materialism — reductive and non-reductive, functionalist, eliminativist, and new wave materialism — come under sustained and trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to the materialist conception of the person receive new and illuminating attention, including anti-materialist versions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.
Author : Robert C. Koons
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199556180
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Waning of Materialism written by Robert C. Koons and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge.
Author : Sang-Hoon Song
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Supervenience, Reduction, and Mental Causation written by Sang-Hoon Song and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Loewer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118388186
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)
Download or read book A Companion to David Lewis written by Barry Loewer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Companion to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways. Students and scholars will discover the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through the diverse range of his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. The first and only comprehensive study of the work of David Lewis, one of the most systematic and influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century Contributions shed light on the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through Lewis's work across his enormous range of influence, including metaphysics, language, logic, epistemology, science, mind, ethics, and aesthetics Outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers working in the fields Lewis influenced explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's work in original ways An essential resource for students and researchers across analytic philosophy that covers the major themes of Lewis's work
Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199259755
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Moral Realism written by Russ Shafer-Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. In the tradition of Plato and G. E. Moore, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of them. These principles are a fundamental aspect of reality, just as much as those that govern mathematics or the natural world. They may be true regardless of our ability to grasp them, and their truth is not a matter of their being ratified from any ideal standpoint, nor of being the object of actual or hypothetical consensus, nor of being an expression of our rational nature. Shafer-Landau accepts Plato's and Moore's contention that moral truths are sui generis. He rejects the currently popular efforts to conceive of ethics as a kind of science, and insists that moral truths and properties occupy a distinctive area in our ontology. Unlike scientific truths, the fundamental moral principles are knowable a priori. And unlike mathematical truths, they are essentially normative: intrinsically action-guiding, and supplying a justification for all who follow their counsel. Moral Realism is the first comprehensive treatise defending non-naturalistic moral realism in over a generation. It ranges over all of the central issues in contemporary metaethics, and will be an important source of discussion for philosophers and their students interested in issues concerning the foundations of ethics.
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351896962
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Supervenience written by Jaegwon Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Research library of Philosophy collects in book form a wide range of important and influential essays in philosophy, drawn predominantly from English language journals. Each volume in the library deals with a field of enquiry which has received significant attention in philosophy in the last 25 years and is edited by a philosopher noted in that field.
Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134839340
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Materialism written by Paul K. Moser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together for the first time many key articles by leading philosophers, this volume charts the problems, positions and themes concerning the issue of materialism.
Author : Howard Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521244718
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Matter and Sense written by Howard Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson presents a very forceful critique of the modern forms that materialism has taken.
Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113943098X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Consciousness written by Mark Rowlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
Author : Robin Gordon Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535376
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Materialism written by Robin Gordon Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration and enlightened thinking, but it has also aroused strong, often violent, passions amongst both its opponents and proponents. This book explores the development of materialism in an engaging and thought-provoking way and defends the form it takes in the twenty-first century. Opening with an account of the ideas of some of the most important thinkers in the materialist tradition, including Epicurus, Lucretius, Hobbes, Hume, Darwin and Marx, the authors discuss materialism’s origins, as an early form of naturalistic explanation and as an intellectual outlook about life and the world in general. They explain how materialism’s beginnings as an imaginative vision of the true nature of things faced a major challenge from the physics it did so much to facilitate, which now portrays the microscopic world in a way incompatible with traditional materialism. Brown and Ladyman explain how out of this challenge materialism developed into the new doctrine of physicalism. Drawing on a wide range of colourful examples, the authors argue that although materialism does not have all the answers, its humanism and commitment to naturalistic explanation and the scientific method is our best philosophical hope in the ideological maelstrom of the modern world.
Author : Daniel Stoljar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135149224
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Physicalism written by Daniel Stoljar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most important yet divisive problems in philosophy. In this superb introduction to the problem Daniel Stoljar focuses on three fundamental questions: the interpretation, truth and philosophical significance of physicalism.
Author : Michael Tooley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815330646
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience written by Michael Tooley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Terence Horgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Supervenience written by Terence Horgan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
