ISBN: 9780191571749

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 th… Altro …

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 andChalmers, 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 (thepsychophysics 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-materialistversions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy > Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191571749

This is a sustained critique of materialism (the thesis that all reality consists of material particles, their relations and interactions).The contributors offer arguments from conscious … Altro …

This is a sustained critique of materialism (the thesis that all reality consists of material particles, their relations and interactions).The contributors offer arguments from conscious experience, rational thought, the interaction of mind and body, and the unity and persisting identity of human persons, and develop a wide range of alternatives.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy > History of Western philosophy > Western philosophy, fr, OUP Oxford<

2010, ISBN: 9780191571749

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2010

2010, ISBN: 9780191571749

eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: OUP Oxford]

2010, ISBN: 9780191571749

eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: OUP Oxford]