Laws, Mind, and Free Will

✍ Scribed by Steven Horst

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Steven Horst's Laws, Mind, and Free Will has both the clarity, scope, and scholarship needed for an excellent text and the original analysis appropriate to a significant contribution to the literature, especially on the topic of laws of nature. It will reward readers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science and provide advanced students with an excellent treatment of important literature. Robert Audi , John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
I Laws and the Mind......Page 16
1 Laws and the Mind......Page 18
2 Laws, Vindication, and Ontology......Page 30
3 The Received Solution in Computational Psychology......Page 42
4 Cartwright, Universal Laws, and Fundamentalism......Page 52
5 Empiricism and Laws......Page 64
6 Laws and Idealization......Page 76
II Laws and Freedom......Page 102
7 Laws and Freedom......Page 104
8 Freedom, Determinism, and Two Accounts of Laws......Page 122
9 Three Appeals and a Kantian Conclusion......Page 136
III Case Studies of Explanation in the Sciences of the Mind......Page 156
10 Psychophysical Laws and Models of Early Vision......Page 158
11 Modeling Cortical Dynamics......Page 194
12 Belief-Desire Psychologies......Page 242
Notes......Page 278
Bibliography......Page 282
Index......Page 290