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Author : Steven Davis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110843828
Author : William Child
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519536
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 : T. William Child
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032987763
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 : Thomas Kroedel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108487146
Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.
Author : David Malet Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015003849893
Author : Jerry A. Fodor
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987-06-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262061063
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 : Jesus H. Aguilar,Andrei A. Buckareff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262514767
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 : T. William Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Causation
ISBN : 0191597201
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 : Peter Carruthers,Peter K. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521559162
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
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027295859
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 : Peter Anthony White
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317734895
This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood. There are two distinct but related ways in which people understand things as happening, denoted by the terms "causation" and "action". This book is concerned with both.; The central claim and organizing principle of the book is that, by the end of the second year of life, children have differentiated two core theories of how things happen. These theories deal with causation and action. The two theories have a common point of origin in the infant's experience of producing actions, but thereafter diverge, both in content and in realm of application. Once established, the core theories of causation and action never change, but form a permanent metaphysical underpinning on which subsequent developments in the understanding of how things happen are erected. The story of development is therefore largely the story of how further concepts become attached to integrated with the core theories. Although the developmental and adult literatures on causal understanding appear at first glance to have little in common, in fact this appearance is illusory, and the idea of two theories helps to bring the two literatures in contact with each other.; The book begins with a survey of the main philosophical ideas about causation and action. Following this, the possible origins of understanding in infancy are reviewed, and separate chapters then deal with the development of understanding of action and causation through childhood. This is then linked to the adult understanding of action and causation, and the literature on adult causal attribution and causal judgement is reviewed from this perspective.
Author : Jens Harbecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110324846
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 : Wim de Muijnck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402013914
This work covers, in its subsequent parts, ontology, the metaphysics of causation, and the philosophy of mind. It provides a firm theoretical basis for believing that in our all-physical world mental causation is perfectly real, and that it can be understood.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004409965
Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, causality and language is analyzed. This approach suggests that language grants the human brain a possibility to articulate a meaningful personal life. Therefore, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Contributing author Sofia Bonicalzi has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754388 (LMUResearchFellows) and from LMUexcellent, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Bavaria under the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal Government and the Länder.
Author : Janet W. Astington,Paul L. Harris,David R. Olson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521386535
A collection of empirical reports and conceptual analyses written by leading researchers in an exciting new area of the cognitive sciences. The book examines a fundamental change that occurs in children's cognition between the ages of two and six.
