New Perspectives on Type Identity
The Mental and the Physical
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- Simone Gozzano, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
- Christopher S. Hill, Brown University, Rhode Island
- Date Published: April 2015
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107515420
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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.
Read more- Proposes new views on the type identity theory of the mind
- A range of approaches are covered, from pure metaphysics to reflections on empirical results
- The papers defend a specific theory but without a monolithic or dogmatic approach
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- Date Published: April 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107515420
- length: 306 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Simone Gozzano and Christopher S. Hill
1. Acquaintance and the mind-body problem Katalin Balog
2. Identity, reduction, and conserved mechanisms: perspectives from circadian rhythm research William Bechtel
3. Property identity and reductive explanation Ansgar Beckermann
4. A brief history of neuroscience's actual influences on mind-brain reductionism John Bickle
5. Type-identity conditions for phenomenal properties Simone Gozzano
6. Locating qualia: do they reside in the brain or in the body and the world? Christopher S. Hill
7. In defense of the identity theory Mark I Frank Jackson
8. The very idea of token physicalism Jaegwon Kim
9. About face: philosophical naturalism, the heuristic identity theory, and recent findings about prosopagnosia Robert McCauley
10. On justifying neurobiologicalism for consciousness Brian McLaughlin
11. The causal contribution of mental events Alyssa Ney
12. Return of the zombies? John Perry
13. Identity, variability, and multiple realization in the special sciences Lawrence Shapiro and Thomas Polger
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