Naturally Minded by Simon Bowes

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Summary

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. Second, we show how statements using these are not reducible to statements about physical kinds, involving biological and social facts.

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Naturally Minded by Simon Bowes

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.

Simon Bowes is Lecturer in Cognitive Science, and co-Director of the Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS) at the University of Sussex, UK.
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ISBN 13 9783031369322
Title Naturally Minded
Author Simon Bowes
Series New Directions In Philosophy And Cognitive Science
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Year published 2024-08-14
Number of pages 244
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