essays on the prospects of nonreductive physicalism /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, Jaegwon Kim.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Library ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
W. de Gruyter,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1992.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (315 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition
GENERAL NOTES
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"Most of the papers included in this volume were originally presented at a conference ... held in Oct. 1990, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany."--Preface.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction � Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism -- Part I -- Emergence � A Systematic View on its Historical Facets -- The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism -- Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction -- “Downward Causation� in Emergentism and Non-reductive Physicalism -- A Contemporary Look at Emergence -- Part II -- Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint -- Subjectivity and Knowing What It�s Like -- Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza�s True Colors -- Qualia and Brain Processes -- Part III
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Understanding ComplexityEmergent Phenomena and Complex Systems -- On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments -- Name Index -- Subject Index