The Metaphysics of Mind
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- Author: Michael Tye
- Date Published: July 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521115261
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In this provocative book, Michael Tye presents his unique account of the metaphysical foundations of psychological discourse. In place of token identity theory or eliminative materialism, he advocates a generalisation of the adverbial approach to sensory experience, the 'operator theory'. He applies this to the analysis of prepositional attitudes, arguing that mental statements cannot involve reference to mental events or objects and that therefore causal statements about the mental cannot be regarded as asserting relations between events. This adverbial theory has the virtue of being both simple and systematic and is an important contribution to the philosophy of mind.
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- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521115261
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.29kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. An objection to the token identity theory
2. Against mental events
3. The foundations of the operator theory
4. Bodily sensation
5. Perceptual sensation
6. Physicalism and the phenomenal qualities of experience
7. The propositional attitudes of folk psychology
8. The metaphysics of cognitive psychology
Index.
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