Physicalism and its discontents
By: edited by Carl Gillett, Barry Loewer.
Contributors: Gillett, Carl, 1967-; Loewer, Barry.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Materialism.; Philosophy of mind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of physicalism / David Papineau; title: From physics to physicalism / Barry Loewer; title: Sufficiency claims and physicalism, a formulation / D. Gene Witmer; title: Realization and mental causation / Sydney Shoemaker; title: Physicalism and psychology, a plea for a substantive philosophy of mind / Georges Rey; title: Davidson and nonreductive materialism, a tale of two cultures / Howard Robinson; title: Substance physicalism / Noa Latham; title: Possibility, physical and metaphysical / Stephen Leeds; title: The roots of reductionism / Scott Sturgeon; title: The significance of emergence / Tim Crane; title: The methodological role of physicalism, a minimal skepticism / Carl Gillett; title: Physicalism, empiricism, and positivism / Gary Gates; title: Mental causation and consciousness, the two mind-body problems for the physicalist / Jaegwon Kim; title: How not to solve the mind-body problem / Colin McGinn; title: Deconstructing New Wave materialism / Terence Horgan and John Tienson; title: In defence of New Wave materialism, a response to Horgan and Tienson / Brian McLaughlin; title: Physicalism unfalsified, Chalmer's inconclusive conceivability argument / Andrew Melnyk.