Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science

by Steven Horst

Book Overview

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. This explanatory gap between mind and brain has thus been a major cause of concern in recent philosophy of mind. Reductionists hold that, despite all appearances, the mind can be reduced to the brain. Eliminativists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199914699
• ISBN13: 9780199914692
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"