Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Mind Series - Horst, Steven (Department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University) - Libros - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780195317114 - 18 de octubre de 2007
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Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus been a major cause of concern in recent philosophy of mind. Reductionists hold that, despite all appearances, the mind can be reduced to the brain. Eliminativists holdthat it cannot, and that this implies that there is something illegitimate about the mentalistic vocabulary. Dualists hold that the mental is irreducible, and that this implies either a substance or a property dualism. Mysterian non-reductive physicalists hold that the mind is uniquely irreducible,perhaps due to some limitation of our self-understanding. Steven Horst argues that this whole conversation is based on assumptions left over from an outdated philosophy of science and suggests that a new paradigm might be found in Cognitive Pluralism: the view that human cognitive architecture constrains us to understand the world through a plurality of partial, idealized, and pragmatically-constrained models, each employing a particular representational system optimized for its own problemdomain. Such an architecture can explain the disunities of knowledge, and is plausible on evolutionary grounds.


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Publicado 18 de octubre de 2007
ISBN13 9780195317114
Editores Oxford University Press Inc
Páginas 240
Dimensiones 239 × 155 × 23 mm   ·   531 g
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