The Waning of Materialism

The Waning of Materialism

ISBN-10:
0199556180
ISBN-13:
9780199556182
Pub. Date:
05/20/2010
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199556180
ISBN-13:
9780199556182
Pub. Date:
05/20/2010
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
The Waning of Materialism

The Waning of Materialism

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Overview

This is a sustained critique of materialism (the thesis that all reality consists of material particles, their relations and interactions). The contributors offer arguments from conscious experience, rational thought, the interaction of mind and body, and the unity and persisting identity of human persons, and develop a wide range of alternatives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199556182
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/20/2010
Pages: 524
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Robert C. Koons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. Koons studied at Michigan State, Oxford, and UCLA. He is the author of Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge, 1993), and Realism Regained (OUP, 2000). George Bealer is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Quality and Concept (OUP, 1982).

Table of Contents

I. Arguments from Consciousness1. Against Materialism, Laurence BonJour, (University of Washington)2. Consciousness: A Simple Approach, Adam Pautz, (University of Texas at Austin)3. Saving Appearances: A Dilemma For Physicalists, Charles Siewert, (University of California, Riverside)4. The Property Dualism Argument, Stephen L. White, (Tufts University)5. Kripke's Argument against Materialism, Eli Hirsch, (Brandeis University)6. The Self-Consciousness Argument: Functionalism and the Corruption of Intentional Content, George Bealer, (Yale University)II. Arguments from Unity and Identity7. On the Significance of Some Intuitions about the Mind, David Barnett, (University of Colorado)8. Persons and the Unity of Consciousness, William Hasker, (Huntington University)9. An Argument from Transtemporal Identity for Subject-Body Dualism, Martine Nida-Rümelin, (University of Fribourg)III. Intentionality, Mental Causation and Knowledge10. Burge's Dualism, Bernard W. Kobes, (Arizona State University)11. Modest Dualism, Tyler Burge, (UCLA)12. Descartes' Revenge Part II: The Supervenience Argument Strikes Back, Neal Judisch, (University of Oklahoma)13. Nonreductive Materialism or Emergent Dualism? The Argument from Mental Causation, Timothy O'Connor, (Indiana University) and John Ross Churchill14. Epistemological Objections to Materialism, Robert C. Koons, (University of Texas)IV. Alternatives to Materialism15. Materialism, Minimal Emergentism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness, Terry Horgan, (University of Arizona)16. Dualizing Materialism, Michael Jubien, (University of Florida)17. Dualistic Materialism, Joseph Almog, (UCLA)18. Varieties of Naturalism, Mario De Caro, (Tufts University)19. Against Methodological Materialism, Angus J. L. Menuge, (Concordia University, Wisconsin)20. Soul, Mind and Brain, Brian Leftow, (University of Oxford)21. Materialism Does Not Save the Phenomena — and the Alternative Which Does, Uwe Meixner, (University of Regensburg)22. Substance Dualism: A Non-Cartesian Approach, E. J. Lowe, (Durham University)BibliographyIndex
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