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Author : Steven Davis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311084382X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Causal Theories of Mind written by Steven Davis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Child
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519537
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind written by William Child and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1994-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Child examines two central ideas in the philosophy of mind, and argues that (contrary to what many philosophers have thought) an understanding of the mind can and should include both. These are causalism, the idea that causality plays an essential role in our understanding of the mental; and interpretationism, the idea that we can gain an understanding of belief and desire by considering the ascription of attitudes to people on the basis of what they say and do.
Author : David Malet Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Mind, and Other Essays written by David Malet Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Warren Calef
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Causal Theory of Mind written by Scott Warren Calef and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262061066
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Psychosemantics written by Jerry A. Fodor and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1987-06-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and naturalist threats to its position. This book is included in the series Explorations in Cognitive Science, edited by Margaret A. Boden. A Bradford Book.
Author : T. William Child
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind written by T. William Child and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers of mind have long been interested in the relation between two ideas: that causality plays an essential role in our understanding of the mental; and that we can gain an understanding of belief and desire by considering the ascription of attitudes to people on the basis of what they say and do. Many have thought that those ideas are incompatible. William Child argues that there is in fact no tension between them, and that we should accept them both. He shows how we can have a causal understanding of the mental without having to see attitudes and experiences as internal, causally interacting entities; and he defends this view against influential objections. The book offers detailed discussions of many of Donald Davidson's contributions to the philosophy of mind, and also considers the work of Dennett, Anscombe, McDowell, and Rorty, among others. Issues discussed include: the nature of intentional phenomena; causal explanation; the character of visual experience; psychological explanation; and the causal relevance of mental properties.
Author : Paul Robert Audi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780549285106
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Beyond Causal Theories of Mind written by Paul Robert Audi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by the broadly functionalist view that what is distinctive of mentality is a certain kind of causal structure. Such functionalist theories are the keystone of contemporary physicalism. I believe that causal theories are inadequate to account for mental phenomena, but that existing objections to them---while largely correct---fail to address their most basic inadequacy: the causal accounts of properties in which causal theories of mind are embedded. I draw attention to a relation of determination that is stronger than causation. That relation is grounding. Grounding is what is picked out by the English phrase 'in virtue of' in a specific range of uses. I draw out the logic of the relation through consideration of examples, and then show how it can be employed in formulating a criterion of identity for properties. This provides a framework for approaching fundamental questions about the relation between mental and physical properties. I argue that mental properties are neither identical to nor realized by physical properties, and that physicalism is thus false. The argument appeals to the special role the mind plays in determining certain normative phenomena, and the inability of physical properties to play that role. I close by defending antiphysicalism from objections concerning mental causation.
Author : Peter Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521559164
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Theories of Theories of Mind written by Peter Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state of the art survey of debate within philosophy of mind, developmental psychology, the aetiology of autism and primatology.
Author : Alberto Peruzzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295859
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Mind and Causality written by Alberto Peruzzi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which causal patterns are involved in mental processes?On what mechanisms does the self-organisation of cognitive structure rest? Can a naturalistic view account for the basic resources of intentionality, while avoiding the objections to reductive materialism? By considering the developmental, phenomenological and biological aspects linking mind and causality, this volume offers a state-of-the art theoretical proposal emphasising the fine-tuning of cognition with the complexity of bodily dynamics.In contrast to the de-coupling of mind from the physical environment in classical information-processing models, growth of brain’s architecture and stabilisation of perception–action cycles are considered decisive, with no need for an eliminative approach to representations pursued by neural network models. The tools provided by physics and biology for the description of massive causal interactions, on top of which ‘qualitative’ changes occur, are exploited to suggest a model of the mind as a many-layered, co-evolving system. (Series A)
Author : T. William Child
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191597206
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Causality, Interpretation and the Mind written by T. William Child and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relation between interpretationism and causal theories in the philosophy of mind, this text defends interpretationism as an approach to the propositional attitudes. It also defends causal theories of action-explanation and vision.
Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780631163695
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Mental Content written by Colin McGinn and published by John Wiley & Sons Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at philsophy graduates this book investigates mental content in a systematic way and advances a number of claims about how mental content states are related to the body and the world. Internalism is the thesis that they are; externalism is the theory that they are not.
Author : Frederik Alexander Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Incorrigibility and Causal Theories of the Mind written by Frederik Alexander Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jens Harbecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110324849
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mental Causation written by Jens Harbecke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated in detail why most of these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the 'new compatibilist’s' approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterized by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part aims to offer an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which are jointly taken to provide a definition of 'causal proportionality' that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific, and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationism must be considered the most successful solution to the problem of mental causation.
Author : George Ellis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 366249809X
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? written by George Ellis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as living beings, and in particular in the human brain, relating this to the emergence of higher levels of complexity with real causal powers. In particular it explores the idea of top-down causation, which is the key effect allowing the emergence of true complexity and also enables the causal efficacy of non-physical entities, including the value of money, social conventions, and ethical choices.
Author : Jesus H. Aguilar
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262514761
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Causing Human Actions written by Jesus H. Aguilar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading figures working in the philosophy of action debate foundational issues relating to the causal theory of action. The causal theory of action (CTA) is widely recognized in the literature of the philosophy of action as the "standard story" of human action and agency—the nearest approximation in the field to a theoretical orthodoxy. This volume brings together leading figures working in action theory today to discuss issues relating to the CTA and its applications, which range from experimental philosophy to moral psychology. Some of the contributors defend the theory while others criticize it; some draw from historical sources while others focus on recent developments; some rely on the tools of analytic philosophy while others cite the latest empirical research on human action. All agree, however, on the centrality of the CTA in the philosophy of action. The contributors first consider metaphysical issues, then reasons-explanations of action, and, finally, new directions for thinking about the CTA. They discuss such topics as the tenability of some alternatives to the CTA; basic causal deviance; the etiology of action; teleologism and anticausalism; and the compatibility of the CTA with theories of embodied cognition. Two contributors engage in an exchange of views on intentional omissions that stretches over four essays, directly responding to each other in their follow-up essays. As the action-oriented perspective becomes more influential in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science, this volume offers a long-needed debate over foundational issues. Contributors Fred Adams, Jesús H. Aguilar, John Bishop, Andrei A. Buckareff, Randolph Clarke, Jennifer Hornsby, Alicia Juarrero, Alfred R. Mele, Michael S. Moore, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Josef Perner, Johannes Roessler, David-Hillel Ruben, Carolina Sartorio, Michael Smith, Rowland Stout
Author : Ross Flom
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1351566016
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Gaze-Following written by Ross Flom and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack thereof—tell us about a child’s language development, understanding of other’s intentions, and the emergence of autism? This volume assembles several years of research on the processing of gaze information and its relationship to early social-cognitive development in infants spanning many age groups. Gaze-Following examines how humans and non-human primates use another individual’s direction of gaze to learn about the world around them. The chapters throughout this volume address development in areas including joint attention, early non-verbal social interactions, language development, and theory of mind understanding. Offering novel insights regarding the significance of gaze-following, the editors present research from a neurological and a behavioral perspective, and compare children with and without pervasive developmental disorders. Scholars in the areas of cognitive development specifically, and developmental science more broadly, as well as clinical psychologists will be interested in the intriguing research presented in this volume.
Author : Dwayne Moore
Publisher : American University Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781433122675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Causal Exclusion Problem written by Dwayne Moore and published by American University Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Causal Exclusion Problem, the popular strategy of abandoning any one of the principles constituting the causal exclusion problem is considered, but ultimately rejected. The metaphysical foundations undergirding the causal exclusion problem are then explored, revealing that the causal exclusion problem cannot be dislodged by undermining its metaphysical foundations - as some are in the habit of doing. Finally, the significant difficulties associated with the bevy of contemporary nonreductive solutions, from supervenience to emergentism, are expanded upon. While conducting this survey of contemporary options, however, two novel approaches are introduced, both of which may resolve the causal exclusion problem from within a nonreductive physicalist paradigm. The Causal Exclusion Problem, which relentlessly motivates the vexing causal exclusion problem and exhaustively surveys its metaphysical assumptions and contemporary responses, is ideal for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in the philosophy of mind.
