Philosophy of Mind, Volume 20

ISBN-13: 9781444339543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str.

Ernest Sosa; Enrique Villanueva

Opis

Philosophical Issues has attained distinction through its previous volumes. Its authors include many of the most distinguished philosophers active today. Each volume is devoted to invited papers, critical studies, and book symposia in a specific area of philosophy.

Spis treści

Introspective Humility (Tim Bayne and Maja Spener).

Attention and Mental Paint (Ned Block).

Independence of Variables in Mental Causation (John Campbell).

Judging, Believing and Thinking (Quassim Assam).

Perception and Computation (Jonathan Cohen).

Does Nagel s Footnote Eleven Solve the Mind–Body Problem? (Tyler Doggett and Daniel Stoljar).

Intentionality Downsized (Christopher S. Hill).

The Autonomy of Mind (Frank Jackson).

Intentionality and Normativity (Uriah Kriegel).

Phenomenal Experience: A Cartesian Theater Revival (Joseph Levine).

A Disjunctive Theory of Introspection: A Reflection on Zombies and Anton s Syndrome (Fiona MacPherson).

Consciousness, Type Physicalism, and Inference to the Best Explanation (Brian P. McLaughlin).

Experiencing Speech (Casey O Callaghan).

Do Theories of Consciousness Rest on a Mistake? (Adam Pautz).

How to Think about Mental Qualities (David Rosenthal).

Practical Rationality is a Problem in the Philosophy of Mind (Timothy Schroeder).

Attention, Seeing, and Change Blindness Symposium (Michael Tye).

Convergence on the Problem of Mental Causation: Shoemaker s Strategy for (Nonreductive?) Physicalists (Alyssa Ney).

Comments on Alyssa Ney (Sydney Shoemaker).

O autorze

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, and has published extensively in epistemology, metaphysics, and other areas.

Enrique Villanueva is a member of the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas at UNAM, and has published in the philosophy of mind.

Blurb

This volume includes cutting edge work by some most distinguished senior contributors to the philosophy of mind, and also papers by younger philosophers rising to prominence. It is an exciting mix that displays how fertile and interesting this important field remains.