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基本説明
Contains articles by a distinguished group of philosophers discussing in detail whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from the physical processes in the universe.
Full Description
There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emergence in Mind presents new essays by a distinguished group of philosophers investigating whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from the physical processes in the universe. Such emergence requires mental properties to be different from physical properties, and much of the discussion relates to what the consequences of such a difference might be in areas such as freedom of the will, and the possibility of scientific explanations of non-physical (for example, social) phenomena. The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would need to be the case for there to be groups that could be said to exercise rationality.
Contents
1. Introduction ; 2. Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: The Challenge of the Explanatory Gap. ; 3. Explanation, Emergence and Causality: Comments on Crane. ; 4. Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic? ; 5. Exclusion and Physicalism: Comments on O'Connor and Churchill. ; 6. Emergent Causation and Property Causation. ; 7. Emergence: Laws and Properties: Comments On Noordhof. ; 8. The Causal Autonomy of the Special Sciences. ; 9. Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: A Reply to Menzies and List. ; 10. Emergence and Downward Causation. ; 11. Identity With a Difference: Comments on Macdonald and Macdonald. ; 12. Can Any Sciences Be Special? ; 13. Can Any Sciences be Special? Comment on Papineau. ; 14. Emergence vs. Reduction in Chemistry. ; 15. An Emergentist's Perspective on the Problem of Free Will. ; 16. Strong Emergence and Freedom: Comment on A. Stephan. ; 17. Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency.