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The Nature of True Minds

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This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently non-natural powers of thought. The difficulty is to understand how our mental capacities, no less than our biological or chemical characteristics, might ultimately be products of our fundamental physical constituents, and to do so in a way that preserves the phenomena. Externalists argue that the significance of thought turns on the circumstances of thinkers; reductionists hold that mental characteristics are physical; eliminationists contend that the concept of thought belongs to an outmoded folk theory of behavior. John Heil explores these topics and points the way to a naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the physical world alongside the non-mental.
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Year:
1992
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
264
ISBN 10:
0511625367
ISBN 13:
9780521424004
ISBN:
9780521413374,9780511625367,0521424003,0521413370,0511625367,9780521424004
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

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