Physicalism and its Discontents

ISBN: 9780521042123 出版年：2001 页码：381 Carl Gillett Barry Loewer Cambridge University Press

Contributors Preface Part I. Physicalism: 1. The rise of physicalism David Papineau 2. From physics to physicalism Barry Loewer 3. Sufficiency claims and physicalism: a formulation D. Gene Witmer 4. Realization and mental causation Sydney Shoemaker 5. Physicalism and psychology: a plea for a substantive philosophy of mind Georges Rey 6. Davidson and non-reductive materialism: a tale of two cultures Howard Robinson 7. Substance physicalism Noa Latham 8. Possibility: physical and metaphysical Stephen Leeds Part II. Physicalist Discontents: 9. The roots of reductionism Scott Sturgeon 10. The significance of emergence Tim Crane 11. The methodological role of physicalism: a minimal scepticism Carl Gillett 12. Physicalism, empiricism and positivism Gary Gates Part III. Physicalism and Consciousness: A Continuing Dialectic Section 1. Arguments for Pessimism: 13. Mental causation and consciousness: the two mind-body problems for the physicalist Jaegwon Kim 14. How not to solve the mind-body problem Colin McGinn 15. Deconstructing new wave materialism Terence Horgan and John Tienson Section 2. Optimistic Rejoinders: 16. In defense of new wave materialism: a response to Horgan and Tienson Brian P. McLaughlin 17. Physicalism unfalsified: Chalmer's inconclusive conceivability argument Andrew Melnyk References Index.