Re-emergence : locating conscious properties in a material world

Re-emergence : locating conscious properties in a material world / Gerald Vision.

Revisiting and defending a key doctrine of the once widely accepted school of philosophy known as emergentism, Gerald Vision proposes that conscious states are emergents, although they depend for their exsitence on their material bases.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vision, Gerald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
©2011
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Emergence (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Consciousness
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Emergentism of the Mental Described and Defended
  • 1. History and Background
  • 1.1. Surveying the Landscape
  • 1.2. Emergentism Depicted
  • 1.3. Classical Emergentism
  • 1.4. Problems and Refinements
  • 1.5. Emergence and the Mental
  • 1.6. Relevant Emergentist Theses
  • 1.7. Theories of the Mental I: Eliminativism
  • 1.8. Theories of the Mental II: Dualism
  • 1.9. Variations on Physicalist Themes
  • 1.10. Non-Reductive Physicalism Contrasted with Emergentism
  • 1.11. Conclusion
  • 2. Fleshing Out the View
  • 2.1. Elaboration of Supervenience and Explanation
  • 2.2. Supervenience Essentials
  • 2.3. Supervenience and Emergentism
  • 2.4. Explanation Essentials
  • 2.5. Conceptual Gambit
  • 2.6. Some Alternative Formulations
  • 2.7. Transition
  • 3. Coincidence: Realization and Identity
  • 3.1. From Supervenience to Realization
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