In this innovative study E.J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, nonreductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He shows how an attribution of independent causal powers to the mental states of human subjects is perfectly consistent with a thoroughly natural world view, and examines the role that conscious mental states play in the human subject's exercise of its most central capacities for perception, action, thought and self-knowledge.
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'... provocative and invigorating, and at the same time both metaphysically satisfying and empirically well informed. This is an elegant and powerful book that philosophers of mind would do well to read and reread carefully.' John Heil, Times Literary Supplement
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In this innovative study E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He shows how an attribution of independent causal powers to the mental states of human subjects is perfectly consistent with a thoroughly natural world view, and examines the role which conscious mental states play in the human subject's exercise of its most central capacities for perception, action, thought and self-knowledge.
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Clarendon Press, Cambridge University Press, Kinds of Being, Basil Blackwell, Human Understanding, Oxford University Press, New York, The Rediscovery of the Mind, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, The Nature of True Minds, Derek Parfit, Scientific American, American Philosophical Quarterly, Consciousness Explained, Donald Davidson, Penguin Books, Philosophical Review, The Concept of Mind, The Modularity of Mind, Gareth Evans, Hard Times, Harvester Press, Philosophical Investigations, Study of Individuation New!
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experiential state one, indistinguishable token experiences, direct demonstrative reference, present conscious thoughts, individuating reference, psychophysical causation, substantival theory, independent causal powers, performing that act, demonstrative phrase, ideational theory, such definite description, perceptual sensations, blindsight subjects, neural causes, ideational approach, psychological substance, persistence conditions, seventy kilograms, causal distinctions, mental causation, perceptible feature, logically necessary condition, intentional content, visual judgements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clarendon Press, Cambridge University Press, Kinds of Being, Basil Blackwell, Human Understanding, Oxford University Press, New York, The Rediscovery of the Mind, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, The Nature of True Minds, Derek Parfit, Scientific American, American Philosophical Quarterly, Consciousness Explained, Donald Davidson, Penguin Books, Philosophical Review, The Concept of Mind, The Modularity of Mind, Gareth Evans, Hard Times, Harvester Press, Philosophical Investigations, Study of Individuation New!
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- The Rediscovery of the Mind (Representation and Mind) by John R. Searle on 5 pages
- Mental Causation by John Heil on 5 pages
- Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson) by Donald Davidson on 5 pages
- The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle on 4 pages
- Sameness and Substance by David Wiggins on 4 pages
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- Realism and Appearances: An Essay in Ontology by John W. Yolton on 5 pages
- Philosophy of Religion: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by Keith E. Yandell on page 264, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Radical Externalism: Honderich's Theory of Consciousness Discussed by Anthony Freeman on page 87, page 94, and Back Matter
- The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination (Synthese Library) by W.L. Craig on page 121, and Back Matter
- Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by John Heil on page 49, and page 230
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