In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas--anti-realism and materialism. In doing so, Koons develops an elegant metaphysical system that accounts for such phenomena as information, mental representation, our knowledge of logic, mathematics and science, the structure of spacetime, the identity of physical objects, and the objectivity of values and moral norms.
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Robert Koons is at University of Texas, Austin.
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In this technical philosophical treatise, Discovery Institute Fellow Robert C. Koons investigates an innovative philosophy of mind. Koons takes on two powerful dogmas in this wide-ranging philosophical work--anti-realism and materialism. In doing so, Koons develops an elegant metaphysical system that accounts for such phenomena as information; mental representation; our knowledge of logic, mathematics and science; the structure of spacetime; the identity of physical objects; and the objectivity of values and moral norms.
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causal priority relation, wholly contingent situation, robustly carrying, primary teleofunctions, asymmetric necessitation, initial state tokens, strict necessitation, causal locality, criterial system, negative statistical relevance, token causation, indeterministic model, aerial stability, information robustly, representational naturalism, occurrent facts, downward monotonicity, market token, dispositional types, atomic tokens, total causation, modal facts, quantifier complexes, occurrent properties, minimal cause Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Realism Regained, Deterministic Model, Teleological Theory of the Mind, David Lewis, Enduring Substances, Unified Theory of Causation, Moral Theory, Frank Jackson, Inverted Earth, Coherent Realism, Jaegwon Kim, Theory of Information, Ruth Millikan, Probabilistic Model, Twin Earth, Hartry Field, Teleological Reliabilism Browse Sample Pages:
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causal priority relation, wholly contingent situation, robustly carrying, primary teleofunctions, asymmetric necessitation, initial state tokens, strict necessitation, causal locality, criterial system, negative statistical relevance, token causation, indeterministic model, aerial stability, information robustly, representational naturalism, occurrent facts, downward monotonicity, market token, dispositional types, atomic tokens, total causation, modal facts, quantifier complexes, occurrent properties, minimal cause Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Realism Regained, Deterministic Model, Teleological Theory of the Mind, David Lewis, Enduring Substances, Unified Theory of Causation, Moral Theory, Frank Jackson, Inverted Earth, Coherent Realism, Jaegwon Kim, Theory of Information, Ruth Millikan, Probabilistic Model, Twin Earth, Hartry Field, Teleological Reliabilism Browse Sample Pages:
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