Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World, Horgan

Автор: Mumford Rani
Название: Causation: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 019968443X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199684434
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Описание: Without cause and effect, there would be no science or technology, no moral responsibility, and no system of law. Causation is therefore the most fundamental connection in the universe and a core topic of philosophical thought. This Very Short Introduction introduces all of the main theories of causation and its key debates.

Автор: Horgan
Название: Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World
ISBN: 1107434882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107434882
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How does mind fit into nature? No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify this question than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim`s work.

Автор: Strawson Galen
Название: The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume
ISBN: 0199605858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199605859
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Описание: In this revised edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in philosophy: David Hume`s work on causation. He argues that Hume believes in causal influence, but insists that we cannot know its nature. The regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and Hume never adopted it in any case.

Автор: Ehring Douglas
Название: Tropes: Properties, Objects, and Mental Causation
ISBN: 0198703031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198703037
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Описание: Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes-properties and relations understood as particulars-provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defends a new theory of trope nominalism.

Автор: Beebee, Helen; Hitchcock, Christopher; Menzies, Pe
Название: The Oxford Handbook of Causation
ISBN: 0199642583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199642588
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Описание: Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Thirty-seven specially written chapters by some of the world`s leading philosophers provide the most comprehensive critical guide available to issues surrounding causation.

Автор: Tse Peter Ulric
Название: The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation
ISBN: 0262528312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262528313
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A neuroscientific perspective on the mind--body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.

The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective. In contrast with philosophers who use logic rather than data to argue whether mental causation or consciousness can exist given unproven first assumptions, Tse proposes that we instead listen to what neurons have to say.

Tse draws on exciting recent neuroscientific data concerning how informational causation is realized in physical causation at the level of NMDA receptors, synapses, dendrites, neurons, and neuronal circuits. He argues that a particular kind of strong free will and "downward" mental causation are realized in rapid synaptic plasticity. Such informational causation cannot change the physical basis of information realized in the present, but it can change the physical basis of information that may be realized in the immediate future. This gets around the standard argument against free will centered on the impossibility of self-causation. Tse explores the ways that mental causation and qualia might be realized in this kind of neuronal and associated information-processing architecture, and considers the psychological and philosophical implications of having such an architecture realized in our brains.

Автор: Schmaltz, Tad M.
Название: Efficient Causation
ISBN: 0199782172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199782178
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Описание: This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery (or invention) in Ancient Greece, through its development in late antiquity, the medieval period, and modern philosophy, to its use in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.