New Perspectives on Type Identity : The Mental and the Physical Paperback / softback
Edited by Simone (Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy) Gozzano, Christopher S. (Brown University, Rhode Island) Hill
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781107515420
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/04/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107515420
