Batthyány / Elitzur Mind and its Place in the World

Non-Reductionist Approaches to the Ontology of Consciousness
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032568-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 323 Seiten

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What is mind? What is its relationship to the physical world? Is consciousness a causative agent in the physical world? With much progress being made in the neurosciences, many have thought that these questions could be answered by reducing them to questions about physical systems such as the brain. But this approach has foundered on the core problem of consciousness: Why is it that some brain processes are accompanied by conscious awareness? This anthology points out new sources and unexamined paths of consciousness research. By presenting a wide spectrum of non-reductive theories, the volume endeavours to overcome the dichotomy between dualism and monism that keeps plaguing the debate in favour of new and more differentiated positions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batthyány, Alexander

Elitzur, Avshalom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;5
2;Mind and Its Place in the World:Introduction and OverviewAlexander Batthyany;7
3;What’s the Mind-Body Problem With YouAnyway? Prolegomena to any ScientificDiscussion of ConsciousnessAvshalom Elitzur;15
4;Thinkways:The Impulse to ReductionismHoyt Edge;23
5;Self-Appropriation:The Dynamic Structure of HumanConsciousnessDonald P. Merrifield, S.J.;41
6;One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’sPersonPeter J. King;61
7;Consciousness and the IntentionalAwareness of InstantiablesRussell Pannier and Thomas D. Sullivan;76
8;Mental Monism Considered as a Solutionto the Mind-Body ProblemPeter B. Lloyd;101
9;Telepathy: Or, How do I Know that thisThought is Mine?Fiona Steink144
10;The Dimensions of Conscious Experience:A Quantitative PhenomenologySteven Lehar;167
11;A Radical Externalist Approach toConsciousness: The Enlarged Mind*Riccardo Manzotti;197
12;On Explanation, Interpretation, andNatural Science with Reference to Freud,Ricoeur, and Von WrightPaul Løvland;225
13;Personal Identity, the Self and TimeHoward Robinson;245
14;Quantum Monism: Spinozicism Revived?Gershon Kurizki;269
15;Boundary Conditions for Theories ofConsciousness:The Near-Death Experience andthe Failure of MaterialismJ. Kenneth Arnette;279
16;Contributors and Editors;317