Identity, Cause, and Mind: Philosophical EssaysThis 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
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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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