New Perspectives on Type Identity - Couverture souple

Gozzano, Simone

 
9781107515420: New Perspectives on Type Identity
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ISBN 10 : 1107515424 ISBN 13 : 9781107515420
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The type identity theory, according to which types of mental state are identical to types of physical state, fell out of favour for some years but is now being considered with renewed interest. Many philosophers are critically re-examining the arguments which were marshalled against it, finding in the type identity theory both resources to strengthen a comprehensive, physicalistic metaphysics and a useful tool in understanding the relationship between developments in psychology and new results in neuroscience. This volume brings together leading philosophers of mind, whose essays challenge in new ways the standard objections to type identity theory, such as the multiple realizability objection and the modal argument. Other essays show how cognitive science and neuroscience are lending new support to type identity theory and still others provide, extend and improve traditional arguments concerning the theory's explanatory power.

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À propos des auteurs

Simone Gozzano is Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the Università dell'Aquila. He is the author of four books (in Italian) on topics such as intentionality, animal minds, mental causation and consciousness. He is the co-editor, with Francesco Orilia, of Tropes and the Philosophy of Mind (2008).

Christopher S. Hill is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of three books: Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism (Cambridge, 1991), Thought and World: An Austere Account of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge, 2002), and Consciousness (Cambridge, 2009).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107515424
ISBN 13 
9781107515420
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
306
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9781107000148: New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1107000149 ISBN 13 :  9781107000148
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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