Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation - Hardcover

 
9780199211531: Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199211531 ISBN 13: 9780199211531
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? Being Reduced attempts to understand these questions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jakob Hohwy obtained his PhD from the Australian National University. He is a lecturer in philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne. Hohwy works on issues of reduction and explanation in science, and engages in interdisciplinary research with neuroscientists and psychiatrists.


Jesper Kallestrup obtained his PhD from the University of St. Andrews. He is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and an associate fellow at ArchÃ(c), the University of St. Andrews. Kallestrup works on issues of reduction, mental causation and the conceivability arguments in the philosophy of mind.


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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199211531
ISBN 13 
9780199211531
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
324
Herausgeber
Hohwy Jakob, Kallestrup Jesper
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