Identity Cause And Mind

Author : Sydney Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199264708

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Identity, Cause, and Mind by Sydney Shoemaker Pdf

This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984, Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by philosophers and students alike.

Author : Sydney Shoemaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521318246

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Identity, Cause and Mind by Sydney Shoemaker Pdf

Since the appearance of a widely influential book, Self-Knowledge and Self-ldentity, Sydney Shoemaker has continued to work on a series of interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. This volume contains a collection of the most important essays he has published since then. The topics that he deals with here include, among others, the nature of personal and other forms of identity, the relation of time to change, the nature of properties and causality and the relation between the two, dualism and immortality, and the nature of mental states. All the essays show the same care and precision in argument as the earlier book, but they also reveal a substantial shift in Professor Shoemaker's position to a form of materialism. In fact, a number of papers together constitute what is probably the most subtle and rigourous defence yet of a sophisticated functionalism in the account of the mind.

Author : Cynthia Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015015507125

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Mind-body Identity Theories by Cynthia Macdonald Pdf

Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others.

Author : John Heil,Professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program John Heil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134455461

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Philosophy of Mind by John Heil,Professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program John Heil Pdf

This comprehensive and leading textbook has been revised and reworked building on the themes of the first edition. As before it covers all aspects of the nature of mind, and is ideal for anyone coming to philosophy of mind for the first time.

Author : M.V. Slors
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401732765

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The Diachronic Mind by M.V. Slors Pdf

vii 1 ~OOUCTIONANOOVERVlliW 1 2 SEITING THE STAGE: PERSONAL IDENTITY ANO THE MErAPHYSICS OFMIND 1. Introduction 6 2. The Problem of Personal Identity over Time 7 3. The Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity over Time 12 4. The Neo-Lockean Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity 16 5. The Circularity Objection 19 6. Problems of Logical Form 21 7. The Lack of a Third-Person Criterion for Reidentification 23 8. The Unity of the Mental Bundle 25 9. The Individuation ofPersons 26 10. The Neo-Lockean Criterion and Physicalism: a 'Natural' Alliance 28 11. One 'Solution' to Five Problems 35 3 PARFIT'S REDUcrIO OF A SUBSTRATUM-ORIENTEO CONCEPfION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUlTY 43 1. Introduction 2. Relation R 45 51 3. Relation R and the Neo-Lockian Paradigm 4. Psychological Atomism 56 61 5. The Central Place of Q-Memory in the Neo-Lockean Paradigm 64 6. The Trouble with Q-memory 74 7. Contents and Contexts. The Other Four Problems 79 8. Conclusions 4 A CON1ENT-ORIENTEO CONCEPTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY 82 1. Introduction 83 2. Two Kinds of Psychological Continuity 91 3. Levels of N-Continuity 93 4. The Unity of N-Continuous Sequences. The Role of the Body 105 5. N-Continuity and Psychological Connectedness 109 6. Summary vi 5 A PSYCHOLOGICAL CRI1ERION OF PERSONAL IDENTITY: THE AVE PROBLEMS REVISITED 1. Introduction 111 2. Circularity, Q-Memory, and N-Continuity 112 119 3. Narrativity and Logical Form 127 4. Third-Person Criteria of Reidentification: The Role of the Body 5.

Author : the late U. T. Place
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190289744

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Identifying the Mind by the late U. T. Place Pdf

This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions to neighboring issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It includes an autobiographical essay as well as a recent paper on the function and neural location of consciousness.

Author : Clive Vernon Borst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Mind and body
ISBN : OCLC:234122836

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The Mind-brain Identity Theory by Clive Vernon Borst Pdf

Author : A.G. Cairns-Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461215103

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Secrets of the Mind by A.G. Cairns-Smith Pdf

Written in a provocative, witty, and highly accessible style, this is not only a splendid general introduction to the central questions of consciousness and brain science, but also an answer to some of them. The author -- noted Glaswegian chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith -- believes our feelings and sensations are not simply alternative descriptions of neural events but have themselves evolved and have physical effects in the brain as well as physical causes. Secrets of the Mind portrays a vision of the world as it may come to be seen by a future science. Sand, sea water, air, and the atoms from which such materials are made are now well understood by science, but the same can not be said of our personal feelings, our sensations and emotions. Science tells us that these too must be forms of quantum energy if they evolved, yet is only now beginning to explain how.

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191622441

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Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit Pdf

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Author : Stefaan E. Cuypers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351812634

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Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy by Stefaan E. Cuypers Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: We are all persons or selves. But what exactly does it mean that we possess an identity and autonomy as persons or selves? This book explores the related problems of self-identity and personal autonomy within the framework of contemporary analytical anthropology, a blend of analytical philosophy of mind and action with moral psychology. Cuypers critically examines the empiricist bundle theory and metaphysical ego theory of self-identity as well as the hierarchical Frankfurt / Dworkin model of personal autonomy. Arguing that all these standard views are found wanting, Cuypers then offers an alternative 'personalist' theory of personal identity, plus an innovative 'moderately heteronomous' theory of autonomy without ever going beyond the analytical frame of reference. In critical discussion with analytical philosophers such as Derek Parfit, John Perry and Harry Frankfurt, this book develops an original perspective on the nature of persons or selves that is orthogonal to the received views in analytical anthropology. Stefaan E. Cuypers is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Author : Brian Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134708024

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Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness by Brian Garrett Pdf

Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the first person singular. Brian Garrett makes an important contribution to the philosophy of personal identity and mind, and to epistemology.

Author : David M. Rosenthal
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872204782

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Materialism and the Mind-body Problem by David M. Rosenthal Pdf

Expanded and updated to include a wide range of classic and contemporary works, this new edition of David Rosenthal's anthology provides a selection of the most important and influential writings on materialism and the mind-body problem.

Author : Peter Unger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199729357

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Identity, Consciousness and Value by Peter Unger Pdf

The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from his discussion of our identity itself, Unger produces a novel but commonsensical theory of the relations between identity and some of our deepest concerns. In a conservative but flexible spirit, he explores the implications of his theory for questions of value and of the good life.

Author : Francesco Belfiore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761868576

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The Triadic Structure of the Mind by Francesco Belfiore Pdf

In this third edition of The Triadic Structure of the Mind, Francesco Belfiore begins from the basic ontological conception of the structure and functioning of the “mind” or “spirit” as an evolving, conscious triad composed of intellect, sensitiveness, and power, each exerting a selfish and a moral activity. Based on this original concept of the triadic, bidirectional and evolving mind, Belfiore has developed a coherent philosophical system, through which he offers fresh solutions in the fields of ontology, knowledge, language, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and law. The present third edition, like the previous one, includes an extensive treatment of the topics addressed as well as the quotation of the views of the major thinkers, whose thought has been discussed and reinterpreted. In addition, new concepts have been introduced, some passages have been clarified, and the style has been improved in several points. The result is an original and exhaustive book, which will be of interest to all philosophy scholars.

Author : Harold W Noonan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351606509

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Personal Identity by Harold W Noonan Pdf

Who am I? What is a person? What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another? What is the relation between the mind and the body? These are just some of the questions that constitute the problem of personal identity, one of the oldest and most fundamental of philosophical questions. Personal Identity, Third Edition is a clear and comprehensive introduction to these questions and more. Harold Noonan places the problem of personal identity in the context of more general puzzles about identity, discussing the major historical theories and more recent debates. The book also includes essential historical and philosophical background to the problem of personal identity as found in the arguments of Locke, Reid and Hume among others. The third edition of Personal Identity has been thoroughly reviewed in light of advances in the latest literature and research. This includes significant revision to the important problems of the simple and complex distinction and its relation to reductionism; temporal parts; and the distinction between perdurance and endurance theorists. Noonan also includes an up to date examination of personal identity and memory and personal identity and animalism, particularly the work of Shoemaker, Parfit, Olson and hybrid theorists. Including helpful chapter summaries and annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Personal Identity, Third Edition is essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind and metaphysics, as well as students interested in ethics.