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Title:Mind & its Place in the World : Non-Reductionist Approaches to the Ontology of Consciousness
Series:(Phenomenology & Mind, Volume 07)
Author:Alexander Batthyany, Avshalom Elitzur (eds)
ISBN:3937202986 : 9783937202983
Format:Hardback
Size:150x210mm
Pages:323
Weight: .536 Kg.
Published:Ontos Verlag - December 2005
List Price: 98.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology


What is mind? What is its relationship to the physical world? Is consciousness a causative agent in the physical world? With much progress being made in the neurosciences, many have thought that these questions could be answered by reducing them to questions about physical systems such as the brain. But this approach has foundered on the core problem of consciousness: Why is it that some brain processes are accompanied by conscious awareness? This anthology points out new sources and unexamined paths of consciousness research. By presenting a wide spectrum of non-reductive theories, the volume endeavours to overcome the dichotomy between dualism and monism that keeps plaguing the debate in favour of new and more differentiated positions.

Mind and Its Place in the World: Introduction and Overview; What’s the Mind-Body With You Anyway?; Thinkways: The Impulse to Reductionism; Self-Appropriation: The Dynamic Structure of Human Consciousness; One Man's Meat is Another Man's Person; Consciousness and the Intentional Awareness of Instantiables; Mental Monism Considered as a Solution to the Mind-Body Problem; Telepathy: Or, How Do I Know That This Thought is Mine?; The Dimensions of Conscious Experience: A Quantitative Phenomenology; A Radical Externalist Approach to Consciousness: The Enlarged Mind; On Explanation, Interpretation, and Natural Science with Reference to Freud, Ricoeur and Von Wright; Personal Identity, the Self and Time; Quantum Monism: Spinozicism Revived?; Boundary Conditions for Theories of Consciousness: The Near-Death Experience and the Failure of Materialism.