Emergent Self

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

AvWilliam Hasker

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In The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind. His provocative and clearly written book challenges physicalist views of human mental functioning and advances the concept of mind as an emergent individual.Hasker begins by mounting a compelling critique of the dominant paradigm in philosophy of mind, showing that contemporary forms of materialism are seriously deficient in confronting crucial aspects of experience. He further holds that popular attempts to explain the workings of mind in terms of mechanistic physics cannot succeed. He then criticizes the two versions of substance dualism most widely accepted today—Cartesian and Thomistic—and presents his own theory of emergent dualism. Unlike traditional substance dualisms, Hasker's theory recognizes the critical role of the brain and nervous system for mental processes. It also avoids the mechanistic reductionism characteristic of recent materialism.Hasker concludes by addressing the topic of survival following bodily death. After demonstrating the failure of materialist views to offer a plausible and coherent account of that possibility, he considers the implications of emergentism for notions of resurrection and the afterlife.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-11-29
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801487606

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1. WHAT CAN'T BE ELIMINATEDEliminative MaterialismThe Self-Refutation ArgumentDoes the Self-Refutation Argument Beg the Question?Is Eliminative Materialism Self-Refuting?Do the Contradictions Matter?Austere Eliminativism and Cognitive ParalysisEliminative Materialism: A Diagnosis2. THE LIMITS OF IDENTITYQuasi-Eliminativist Strategies: Analytic Behaviorism and FunctionalismMind-Body Identity TheoriesThe Supervenience of Mind on Body3. WHY THE PHYSICAL ISN'T CLOSEDSupervenience, Causal Closure, and MechanismThe Argument from ReasonMechanism and Datwinist Epistemology4. FREE WILL AND AGENCYLibertarian Free WillThe Frankfurt CounterexamplesFree Will Without an AgentAgent Causation5. THREE ARGUMENTS FOR SUBSTANCE DUALISMDescartes according to SwinburneDescartes according to TaliaferroThe Unity-of-Consciousness Argument6. PROBLEMATIC DUALISMSCartesian DualismObjections to Cartesian DualismThe Swinburne VariationsThomistic DualismCritique of Thomistic Dualism7. EMERGENT DUALISMConcepts of EmergenceTwo Recent EmergentistsEmergent DualismFurther Problems8. PROSPECTS FOR SURVIVALTraditional Dualism and SurvivalMaterialism and Survival: Re-creationMaterialism and Survival: Body-Switching and Body-SplittingEmergent Dualism and SurvivalINDEX

The Emergent Self is valuable not least because it runs so thoroughly against the grain of contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics... It will be interesting to see how the internalist Kantians he discusses in this book—Henry Allison, Marcia Baron, David Cummiskey, Barbara Herman, Thomas Hill, Christine Korsgaard, and Onora O'Neill—respond to his challenging arguments.(Philosophy and Phenomenological Research) Hasker presents an engaging and carefully argued account of why most contemporary forms of materialism and dualism fail to explain mind and self. This is the kind of wide-ranging and careful study that deserves a symposium! Highly recommended.(Choice)

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