What S Wrong With Microphysicalism

Author : Andreas Huttemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134336241

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What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? by Andreas Huttemann Pdf

'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage. In What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Andreas Hüttemann offers a fresh challenge to this view. Hüttemann agrees with the microphysicalists that we can explain compound systems by explaining their parts, but claims that this does not entail a fundamentalism that gives hegemony to the micro-level. At most, it shows that there is a relationship of determination between parts and wholes, but there is no justification for taking this relationship to be asymmetrical rather than one of mutual dependence. Hüttemann argues that if this is the case, then microphysicalists have no right to claim that the micro-level is the ultimate agent: neither the parts nor the whole have 'ontological priority'. Hüttemann advocates a pragmatic pluralism, allowing for different ways to describe nature. What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? is a convincing and original contribution to central issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and metaphysics.

Author : Andreas Huttemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134336258

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What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? by Andreas Huttemann Pdf

A fresh challenge to 'microphysicalism', the influential contemporary view in philosophy and science that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts.

Author : Christopher J. Austin,Anna Marmodoro,Andrea Roselli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030924867

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Powers, Time and Free Will by Christopher J. Austin,Anna Marmodoro,Andrea Roselli Pdf

This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature. Which conception of laws of nature best fits with how we conceive of free will? And which constraints does our conception of the laws of nature place on how we think of free will? The metaphysics of causation and the metaphysics of dispositions are also explored in this edited volume, in relation to whether they may or may not be game-changers in how we think about both free will and the laws of nature. The volume presents the views of a range of international experts on these issues, and aims at providing the reader with novel approaches to a core problem in philosophy. The target audience is composed by academics and scholars who are interested in an original and contemporary approach to these long-debated issues. Chapters [2] and [4] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Jakob Hohwy,Jesper Kallestrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199211531

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Being Reduced by Jakob Hohwy,Jesper Kallestrup Pdf

Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? Being Reduced attempts to understand these questions.

Author : Brandon Rickabaugh,J. P. Moreland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781394195497

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The Substance of Consciousness by Brandon Rickabaugh,J. P. Moreland Pdf

A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism In The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. Multidisciplinary in scope, the book explores areas of philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, and the sociology of mind-body beliefs. The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and rigorous non-edited work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years. Alongside developing new and updated positive arguments for substance dualism, they also discuss key metaphysical notions and distinctions that inform the examination of substance dualism and its alternatives. Readers will also find: A thorough examination of the recent shift away from standard physicalism and the renaissance of substance dualism Comprehensive explorations of the likely future of substance dualism in the twenty-first century, including an exhaustive list of proposed research projects for substance dualists Practical discussion of new and rigorous critiques of significant physicality alternatives, including emergentism and panpsychism. Extensive treatments of philosophy of mind debates about the roles played by staunch/faint-hearted naturalism and theism in establishing or presuming methodology, epistemic priorities, and prior metaphysical commitments Perfect for professional philosophers, The Substance of Consciousness will also earn a place in the libraries of consciousness researchers, philosophical theologians, and religious studies scholars.

Author : Reinaldo J. Bernal Velásquez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110325560

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E-Physicalism by Reinaldo J. Bernal Velásquez Pdf

This work advances a theory in the metaphysics of phenomenal consciousness, which the author labels “e-physicalism”. Firstly, he endorses a realist stance towards consciousness and physicalist metaphysics. Secondly, he criticises Strong AI and functionalist views, and claims that consciousness has an internal character. Thirdly, he discusses HOT theories, the unity of consciousness, and holds that the “explanatory gap” is not ontological but epistemological. Fourthly, he argues that consciousness is not a supervenient but an emergent property, not reducible and endowed with original causal powers, with respect to the micro-constituents of the conscious entity. Fifthly, he addresses the “zombie argument” and the “supervenience argument” within the e-physicalism framework. Finally, he elaborates on the claim that phenomenal properties are physical and discusses the “knowledge argument”.

Author : Stuart Glennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191085291

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The New Mechanical Philosophy by Stuart Glennan Pdf

The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science—one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing on an expanding literature on mechanisms in physical, life, and social sciences, Stuart Glennan offers an account of the nature of mechanisms and of the models used to represent them. A key quality of mechanisms is that they are particulars - located at different places and times, with no one just like another. The crux of the scientist's challenge is to balance the complexity and particularity of mechanisms with our need for representations of them that are abstract and general. This volume weaves together metaphysical and methodological questions about mechanisms. Metaphysically, it explores the implications of the mechanistic framework for our understanding of classical philosophical questions about the nature of objects, properties, processes, events, causal relations, natural kinds and laws of nature. Methodologically, the book explores how scientists build models to represent and understand phenomena and the mechanisms responsible for them. Using this account of representation, Glennan offers a scheme for characterizing the enormous diversity of things that scientists call mechanisms, and explores the scope and limits of mechanistic explanation.

Author : Daniel Stoljar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135149222

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Physicalism by Daniel Stoljar Pdf

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 : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521544947

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Boundaries of the Mind by Robert A. Wilson Pdf

This 2004 book provides the foundations for the view that the mind extends beyond the boundary of the individual.

Author : William M.R. Simpson,Robert C. Koons,James Orr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000480672

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Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature by William M.R. Simpson,Robert C. Koons,James Orr Pdf

This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature. It features original contributions by some of the best scholars engaging with Aristotelianism in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology. Despite the growing interest in Aristotelian approaches to contemporary philosophy of science, few metaphysicians have engaged directly with the question of how a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of nature might change the landscape for theological discussion concerning theology and naturalism, the place of human beings within nature, or the problem of divine causality. The chapters in this volume are collected into three thematic sections: Naturalism and Nature, Mind and Nature, and God and Nature. By pushing the current boundaries of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics to recover the traditional notion of substantial forms in physics, reframe the principle of proportionality in biology, and restore the hierarchy of being familiar to ancient philosophy, this book advances a metaphysically unified framework that accommodates both scientific and theological knowledge, enriching the interaction between science, philosophy and theology. Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, natural theology, philosophical theology, and analytic theology. Chapters 1, 2, and 7 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Antti Revonsuo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135164799

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Consciousness by Antti Revonsuo Pdf

The study of consciousness is recognized as one of the biggest remaining challenges to the scientific community. This book provides a fascinating introduction to the new science that promises to illuminate our understanding of the subject. Consciousness covers all the main approaches to the modern scientific study of consciousness, and also gives the necessary historical, philosophical and conceptual background to the field. Current scientific evidence and theory from the fields of neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging and the study of altered states of consciousness such as dreaming, hypnosis, meditation and out-of-body experiences is presented. Revonsuo provides an integrative review of the major existing philosophical and empirical theories of consciousness and identifies the most promising areas for future developments in the field. This textbook offers a readable and timely introduction to the science of consciousness for anyone interested in this compelling area, especially undergraduates studying psychology, philosophy, cognition, neuroscience and related fields.

Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000530735

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Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation by Gregory E. Ganssle Pdf

This book discusses various aspects of God’s causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much disagreement about the details of divine activity. The chapters in this book fruitfully explore these disagreements about divine causation. The chapters are divided into two sections. The first explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. The second section addresses a variety of contemporary issues related to God’s causal activity. These chapters include defenses of the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation. Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and metaphysics.

Author : Andreas Hüttemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316519394

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A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice by Andreas Hüttemann Pdf

Provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, yielding new accounts of lawhood, causation and reduction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043178

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCD:31175029274795

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Mind by Anonim Pdf

Issues for 1896-1900 contain papers of the Aristotelian Society.