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An edition of The waning of materialism (2009)

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Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defenses of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and Chalmers, Jackson's knowledge argument, Kim's exclusion problem, and Burge's anti-individualism all play a part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the materialist research program. Several papers address the implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of materialism -- reductive and non-reductive, functionalist, eliminativist, and new wave materialism -- come under sustained and trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to the materialist conception of the person receive new and illuminating attention, including anti-materialist versions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism. - Publisher.

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Table of Contents

Preface / Robert C. Koons and George Bealer
Part I: Arguments from consciousness
Against materialism / Laurence BonJour
A simple view of consciousness / Adam Pautz
Saving appearances : a dilemma for physicalists / Charles Siewert
The property dualism argument / Stephen L. White
Kripke's argument against materialism / Eli Hirsch
The self-consciousness argument : functionalism and the corruption of intentional content / George Bealer
Part II: Arguments from unity and identity
You are simple / David Barnett
Persons and the unity of consciousness / William Hasker
An argument from transtemporal identity for subject-body dualism / Martine Nida-Rumelin
Part III: Intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge
Burge's dualism / Bernard W. Kobes
Modest dualism / Tyler Burge
Descartes' revenge part II : the supervenience argument strikes back / Neal Judisch
Nonreductive physicalism or emergent dualism : the argument from mental causation / Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchil
Epistemological objections to materialism / Robert C. Koons
Part IV: Alternatives to materialism
Materialism, minimal emergentism, and the hard problem of consciousness / Terry Horgan
Dualizing materialism / Michael Jubien
Dualistic materialism / Joseph Almog
Varieties of naturalism / Mario De Caro
Against methodological materialism / Angus J.L. Menuge
Soul, mind, and brain / Brian Leftow
Materialism does not save the phenomena and the alternative which does / Uwe Meixner
Substance dualism : a non-cartesian approach / E.J. Lowe.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, New York

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146/.3
Library of Congress
B825 .W36 2009, B825.W36 2009

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Hardcover
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xxxi, 490 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

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OL23223441M
ISBN 10
0199556180
ISBN 13
9780199556182
LCCN
2009016667

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