Reduction : : between the mind and the brain / / Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb.

• Superior document: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. New series ; v. 12
• Author: Hieke, Alexander.
• TeilnehmendeR: Leitgeb, Hannes.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society ; n.s., v. 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. BETWEEN THE MIND ... -- ENOUGH WITH THE NORMS ALREADY! / Fodor, Jerry -- INTENTIONALITY, INFORMATION, AND EXPERIENCE / Brandl, Johannes L. -- ACCEPTANCE AS CONDITIONAL DISPOSITION / Paglieri, Fabio -- II. ... AND ... -- "SUPERVENIENT AND YET NOT DEDUCIBLE": IS THERE A COHERENT CONCEPT OF ONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE? / Kim, Jaegwon -- NON-REDUCTIVE PHYSICALISM, MENTAL CAUSATION AND THE NATURE OF ACTIONS / Schlosser, Markus E. -- SORITICAL SERIES AND FISHER SERIES / Égré, Paul -- THE ELIMINATION OF MEANING IN COMPUTATIONAL THEORIES OF MIND / Schweizer, Paul -- III. ... THE BRAIN -- NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY / Suppes, Patrick -- DECOMPOSING, RECOMPOSING, AND SITUATING CIRCADIAN MECHANISMS: THREE TASKS IN DEVELOPING MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS / Bechtel, William / Abrahamsen, Adele -- ADAPTIVE CONTROL LOOPS AS AN INTERMEDIATE MIND-BRAIN REDUCTION BASIS / Proust, Joëlle -- Backmatter