Mind and BrainClarendon Press, 1990 - 400 pagina's Originally published in 1988 as a single-volume hardback edition, Mind and Brain and The Consequences of Determinism consider the three principal issues of the philosophy of mind: the exact nature of the relation between mental and neural events; how both sorts of events come about; and their relation to actions. The answers that Honderich provides in Volume I constitute a new determinist philosophy of mind. He proceeds in Volume II to explore the consequences of that position, considering what the truth of determinism means for, among other things, our life-hopes, our attitudes towards others, and our view of moral responsibility. |
Inhoudsopgave
Necessary Connections | 13 |
Psychoneural Nomic Correlation | 71 |
The Causation of Psychoneural Pairs | 145 |
The Causation of Actions | 209 |
Neuroscience and Quantum Theory | 261 |
Prediction and Knowledge | 337 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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