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9781107000148

New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107000148

  • ISBN10:

    1107000149

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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The type identity theory, according to which types of mental state are identical to types of physical state, fell out of favour for some years but is now being considered with renewed interest. Many philosophers are critically re-examining the arguments which were marshalled against it, finding in the type identity theory both resources to strengthen a comprehensive, physicalistic metaphysics and a useful tool in understanding the relationship between developments in psychology and new results in neuroscience. This volume brings together leading philosophers of mind, whose essays challenge in new ways the standard objections to type identity theory, such as the multiple realizability objection and the modal argument. Other essays show how cognitive science and neuroscience are lending new support to type identity theory and still others provide, extend and improve traditional arguments concerning the theory's explanatory power.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. x
Introductionp. 1
Acquaintance and the mind-body problemp. 16
Identity, reduction, and conserved mechanisms: perspectives from circadian rhythm researchp. 43
Property identity and reductive explanationp. 66
A brief history of neuroscience's actual influences on mind-brain reductionismp. 88
Type-identity conditions for phenomenal propertiesp. 111
Locating qualia: do they reside in the brain or in the body and the world?p. 127
In defence of the identity theory mark Ip. 150
The very idea of token physicalismp. 167
About face: philosophical naturalism, the heuristic identity theory, and recent findings about prosopagnosiap. 186
On justifying neurobiologicalism for consciousnessp. 207
The causal contribution of mental eventsp. 230
Return of the zombies?p. 251
Identity, variability, and multiple realization in the special sciencesp. 264
Indexp. 288
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