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From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance
Taschenbuch von Howard Robinson
Sprache: Englisch

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This book offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, arguing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain consciousness.
This book offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, arguing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain consciousness.
Über den Autor
Howard Robinson, a native Coloradan, was educated at Brigham Young University and at the State University of New York. He has been a teacher, a market research analyst, a regional sales representative, and a corporate manager. He was an employee of the LDS Church for twenty-seven years in various Regional and Area offices. In connection with these assignments, he and his family spent nearly ten years living overseas in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and the Philippines. He and his wife, Maryetta, have had four children and (to date) sixteen grandchildren. He continues to live in the city of Jacob Martin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. The Power of the Knowledge Argument: 1. Introducing the knowledge argument; 2. Dennett's denial of Mary's ignorance; 3. The abilities hypothesis and other functionalist strategies; 4. Why Frank should not have jilted Mary: the inadequacy of representationalism as a strategy against KA; 5. The phenomenal concept strategy: more enigma than argument; 6. Davidson, non-reductive physicalism and naturalism without physicalism; 7. Mysterianism, neutral monism and panpsychism; 8. Conclusion: the real power of the knowledge argument - qualia, qualities and our conception of the physical world; Part II. Why Physicalism Entails Epiphenomenalism: 9. Reductionism and the status of the special sciences; 10. Vagueness, realism, language and thought; 11. Composite objects, the special sciences, conceptualism and realism; 12. Why there are (probably) no physical individuals; 13. Dennett and the human perspective; Part III. Arguments for Mental Substance: 14. Some current arguments for substance dualism; 15. An argument for the existence of mental substance; 16. Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781107455481
ISBN-10: 1107455480
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Robinson, Howard
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Howard Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 109499056
Über den Autor
Howard Robinson, a native Coloradan, was educated at Brigham Young University and at the State University of New York. He has been a teacher, a market research analyst, a regional sales representative, and a corporate manager. He was an employee of the LDS Church for twenty-seven years in various Regional and Area offices. In connection with these assignments, he and his family spent nearly ten years living overseas in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and the Philippines. He and his wife, Maryetta, have had four children and (to date) sixteen grandchildren. He continues to live in the city of Jacob Martin.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. The Power of the Knowledge Argument: 1. Introducing the knowledge argument; 2. Dennett's denial of Mary's ignorance; 3. The abilities hypothesis and other functionalist strategies; 4. Why Frank should not have jilted Mary: the inadequacy of representationalism as a strategy against KA; 5. The phenomenal concept strategy: more enigma than argument; 6. Davidson, non-reductive physicalism and naturalism without physicalism; 7. Mysterianism, neutral monism and panpsychism; 8. Conclusion: the real power of the knowledge argument - qualia, qualities and our conception of the physical world; Part II. Why Physicalism Entails Epiphenomenalism: 9. Reductionism and the status of the special sciences; 10. Vagueness, realism, language and thought; 11. Composite objects, the special sciences, conceptualism and realism; 12. Why there are (probably) no physical individuals; 13. Dennett and the human perspective; Part III. Arguments for Mental Substance: 14. Some current arguments for substance dualism; 15. An argument for the existence of mental substance; 16. Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances; Bibliography; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781107455481
ISBN-10: 1107455480
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Robinson, Howard
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Howard Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 109499056
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