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- catalog abstract "This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently non-natural powers of thought. The difficulty is to understand how our mental capacities, no less than our biological or chemical characteristics, might ultimately be products of our fundamental physical constituents, and to do so in a way that preserves the phenomena. Externalists argue that the significance of thought turns on the circumstances of thinkers; reductionists hold that mental characteristics are physical; eliminationists contend that the concept of thought belongs to an outmoded folk theory of behavior. John Heil explores these topics and points the way to a naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the physical world alongside the non-mental.".
- catalog contributor b3758466.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The legacy of Cartesianism -- 3. Supervenience -- 4. Mental causation -- 5. Privileged access -- 6. Talk and thought -- 7. The nature of true minds.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.".
- catalog description "This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently non-natural powers of thought. The difficulty is to understand how our mental capacities, no less than our biological or chemical characteristics, might ultimately be products of our fundamental physical constituents, and to do so in a way that preserves the phenomena. Externalists argue that the significance of thought turns on the circumstances of thinkers; reductionists hold that mental characteristics are physical; eliminationists contend that the concept of thought belongs to an outmoded folk theory of behavior. John Heil explores these topics and points the way to a naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the physical world alongside the non-mental.".
- catalog extent "xi, 248 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521413370".
- catalog identifier "0521424003 (pb.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in philosophy".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "128/.2 20".
- catalog subject "BD418.3 .H45 1992".
- catalog subject "Philosophy of mind.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The legacy of Cartesianism -- 3. Supervenience -- 4. Mental causation -- 5. Privileged access -- 6. Talk and thought -- 7. The nature of true minds.".
- catalog title "The nature of true minds / John Heil.".
- catalog type "text".