Naturally Minded Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps
-82%
Availability: In Stock

Naturally Minded Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps

SKU: 9783031369308

Original price was: $139.99.Current price is: $24.99.

Access Naturally Minded Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

Naturally Minded Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps
Author(s)

Simon Bowes
Edition
ISBN

9783031369308, 9783031369292
Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book is an empirically informed investigation of the philosophical problem of mental causation, and a philosophical investigation of the status of cognitive scientific generalisations. If there are mental causes which can be classified in a way useful for predicting and explaining, then they are natural kinds. First. we develop an account of natural kinds that accommodates the cognitive. Second, we show how statements using these are not reducible to statements about physical kinds, involving biological and social facts. Finally, Virtual Machine Functionalism is defended as the correct account of the relationship between cognition and the material world.

Related products