Identity, Cause, and Mind: Philosophical Essays - Brossura

Shoemaker, Sydney

 
9780199264704: Identity, Cause, and Mind: Philosophical Essays

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This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984, Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by philosophers and students alike.

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L'autore

Sydney Shoemaker is at Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University.

Contenuti

  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • 1: Self-reference and self-awareness
  • 2: Persons and their pasts
  • 3: Time without change
  • 4: On projecting the unprojectible
  • 5: Conceptual connections and other minds
  • 6: Embodiment and behavior
  • 7: Immortality and dualism
  • 8: Phenomenal similarity
  • 9: Functionalism and qualia
  • 10: Causality and properties
  • 11: Identity, properties, and causality
  • 12: Some varieties of functionalism
  • 13: On an argument for dualism
  • 14: Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block
  • 15: The inverted spectrum
  • 16: On what there are
  • 17: Self and substance
  • 18: Causal and metaphysical necessity
  • 19: Realization and mental causation
  • References
  • Index

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