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The Waning of Materialism

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The Waning of Materialism

Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defences of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and
Chalmers, Jacksonâ€™s knowledge argument, Kimâ€™s exclusion problem, and Burgeâ€™s anti-individualism all play a part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the materialist research program. Several papers address the implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the
psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of materialism â€” reductive and non-reductive, functionalist, eliminativist, and new wave materialism â€” come under sustained and trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to the materialist conception of the person receive new and illuminating attention, including anti-materialist
versions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780191614019
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	523
PublicationDate	2010-03-25
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	2010-03-25
Studio	OUP Oxford

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