Emergence in Mind
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Mind Association Occasional Series
ISBN-10
0199583625
ISBN-13
9780199583621
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 29th, 2010
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
606 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 16.20 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontologyPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of science
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There have long been controversies about how minds can fit into a physical universe. In Emergence in Mind a distinguished group of philosophers discuss whether mental properties can be said to 'emerge' from physical processes. The discussion is extended to cover the role emergence may play in free will and agency, and in the special sciences.
There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emergence in Mind presents new essays by a distinguished group of philosophers investigating whether mental properties can be said to ''emerge'' from the physical processes in the universe. Such emergence requires mental properties to be different from physical properties, and much of the discussion relates to what the consequences of such a difference might be in areas such as freedom of the will, and the possibility of scientific explanations of non-physical (for example, social) phenomena. The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would need to be the case for there to be groups that could be said to exercise rationality.
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