Naturally Minded: Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps

Bowes, Simon

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-14
  • 售價: $5,530
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,254
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 244
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031369327
  • ISBN-13: 9783031369322
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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書是對心理因果關係的哲學問題進行的經驗性調查,以及對認知科學一般化狀態的哲學探討。如果存在可以以有助於預測和解釋的方式進行分類的心理原因,那麼它們就是自然類型。首先,我們發展出一種能夠容納認知的自然類型的說明。其次,我們展示了使用這些說明的陳述並不能簡化為關於物理類型的陳述,這涉及生物和社會事實。最後,我們捍衛虛擬機功能主義作為認知與物質世界之間關係的正確說明。

作者簡介

Simon Bowes is Lecturer in Cognitive Science, and co-Director of the Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS) at the University of Sussex, UK.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Simon Bowes 是英國薩塞克斯大學認知科學的講師,以及認知科學中心(COGS)的共同主任。