New Perspectives on Type Identity
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New Perspectives on Type Identity

The Mental and the Physical

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New Perspectives on Type Identity

The Mental and the Physical

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781107000148
eBook ISBN
9781139334860
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Mind & Body in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TYPE IDENTITY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. CHAPTER 1: Acquaintance and the mind–body problem
  11. CHAPTER 2: Identity, reduction, and conserved mechanisms: perspectives from circadian rhythm research
  12. CHAPTER 3: Property identity and reductive explanation
  13. CHAPTER 4: A brief history of neuroscience’s actual influences on mind–brain reductionism
  14. CHAPTER 5: Type-identity conditions for phenomenal properties
  15. CHAPTER 6: Locating qualia: do they reside in the brain or in the body and the world?
  16. CHAPTER 7: In defence of the identity theory mark I
  17. CHAPTER 8: The very idea of token physicalism
  18. CHAPTER 9: About face: philosophical naturalism, the heuristic identity theory, and recent findings about prosopagnosia
  19. CHAPTER 10: On justifying neurobiologicalism for consciousness
  20. CHAPTER 11: The causal contribution of mental events
  21. CHAPTER 12: Return of the zombies?
  22. CHAPTER 13: Identity, variability, and multiple realization in the special sciences
  23. Index

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