Subjects of Experience

ISBN-13: 9780521475037 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 220 str.

E. J. Lowe

Opis

In this innovative study E.J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, nonreductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He shows how an attribution of independent causal powers to the mental states of human subjects is perfectly consistent with a thoroughly natural world view, and examines the role that conscious mental states play in the human subject's exercise of its most central capacities for perception, action, thought and self-knowledge.

Recenzje

'… provocative and invigorating, and at the same time both metaphysically satisfying and empirically well informed. This is an elegant and powerful book that philosophers of mind would do well to read and reread carefully.' John Heil, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Substance and selfhood; 3. Mental causation; 4. Perception; 5. Action; 6. Language, thought and imagination; 7. Self-knowledge; Index.