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Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain

Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain

Hieke, Alexander
Leitgeb, Hannes

Hardcover

Series: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - N, Book 12

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3110328542
ISBN13: 9783110328547
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jul 22 2009
Pages: 219
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the puzzles of the mind. But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

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