Identity, Cause, and Mind: Philosophical Essays

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Clarendon Press, 2003 - 461 pages
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This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. It reproduces all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and includes four papers published since the first editionappeared in 1984. Themes include the nature of self-knowledge and self-reference, personal identity, persistence over time, properties, mental states, and perceptual experience.A number of the papers, including 'Self-Reference and Self-Awareness', 'Persons and Their Pasts', 'Causality and Properties', and 'The Inverted Spectrum', have remained at the centre of discussion of their topics. Several of the essays in the original collection discuss the ways in which causalconsiderations enter into the individuation of properties, and three of the added essays - 'Causal and Metaphysical Necessity', 'Realization and Mental Causation', and 'On What There Are' - deal with related themes. The neo-Lockean view of personal identity presented in 'Persons and Their Pasts' isdeveloped with a different emphasis in the added paper 'Self and Substance'.Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by scholars and students alike.
 

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Table des matières

Introduction
2
Selfreference and selfawareness
5
Persons and their pasts
19
Time without change
49
On projecting the unprojectible
67
Conceptual connections and other minds
103
Embodiment and behavior
113
Immortality and dualism
139
Some varieties of functionalism 161
261
On an argument for dualism 187
287
Absent qualia are impossible a reply to Block
309
The inverted spectrum
327
On what there are
358
Self and substance
381
Causal and metaphysical necessity
407
Realization and mental causation
427

Phenomenal similarity
159
Functionalism and qualia
184
Causality and properties 106
206
Identity properties and causality 134
234
References
452
Index
459
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Sydney Shoemaker is at Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University.

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