Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain

✍ Scribed by Alexander Hieke (editor); Hannes Leitgeb (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series; 12
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

✦ Table of Contents

I.BETWEEN THE MIND ...
ENOUGH WITH THENORMS ALREADY!JERRY FODOR
INTENTIONALITY, INFORMATION, AND EXPERIENCE JOHANNES L. BRANDL
ACCEPTANCE AS CONDITIONAL DISPOSITION FABIO PAGLIERI
II.... AND ...
“SUPERVENIENT AND YET NOT DEDUCIBLE”: IS THERE A COHERENT CONCEPT OFONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE?*JAEGWON KIM
NON-REDUCTIVE PHYSICALISM,MENTAL CAUSATIONAND THE NATURE OF ACTIONS MARKUS E. SCHLOSSER
SORITICAL SERIES AND FISHER SERIES PAUL ÉGRÉ
THE ELIMINATION OF MEANING IN COMPUTATIONAL THEORIES OF MIND PAUL SCHWEIZER
III.... THE BRAIN
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICALFOUNDATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY PATRICK SUPPES
DECOMPOSING, RECOMPOSING, AND SITUATING CIRCADIAN MECHANISMS:THREE TASKS IN DEVELOPING MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS WILLIAM BECHTEL and ADELE ABRAHAMSEN
ADAPTIVE CONTROL LOOPS AS AN INTERMEDIATEMIND-BRAIN REDUCTION BASIS JOËLLE PROUST