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Persons and Minds the Prospects of Nonre
J. Margolis (Dept. Of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, Usa)
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Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism. Professor Margolis starts his investigation, however, with a critique of the range of contemporary materialist theories, and does not find them viable. None of them, he argues, "can accommodate in a convincing way the most distinctive features of the mental life of men and oflower creatures and the imaginative possibilities of discovery and technology" (p. 8). In an extraordinarily rich analysis, Margolis carefully considers and criticizes mind-body identity theories, physicalism, eliminative materialism, behaviorism, as inadequate precisely in that they are reductive. He argues, then, for ramified concepts of emergence, ... Read more
Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism. Professor Margolis starts his investigation, however, with a critique of the range of contemporary materialist theories, and does not find them viable. None of them, he argues, "can accommodate in a convincing way the most distinctive features of the mental life of men and oflower creatures and the imaginative possibilities of discovery and technology" (p. 8). In an extraordinarily rich analysis, Margolis carefully considers and criticizes mind-body identity theories, physicalism, eliminative materialism, behaviorism, as inadequate precisely in that they are reductive. He argues, then, for ramified concepts of emergence, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027708632
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V9789027708632
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