The waning of materialism / edited by Robert C. Koons and George Bealer.

Contributor(s): Koons, Robert C | Bealer, George
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxxi, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780199556182 (hardback : alk. paper); 0199556180 (hardback : alk. paper); 0199556199 (pbk.); 9780199556199 (pbk.); 9780191721014 (ebook)Subject(s): MaterialismDDC classification: 146/.3 LOC classification: B825 | .W36 2010
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Arguments from consciousness -- Against materialism / Laurence BonJour -- A simple view of consciousness / Adam Pautz -- Saving appearances : a dilemma for physicalists / Charles Siewert -- The property dualism argument / Stephen L. White -- Kripke's argument against materialism / Eli Hirsch -- The self-consciousness argument : functionalism and the corruption of intentional content / George Bealer -- Part II. Arguments from unity and identity -- You are simple / David Barnett -- Persons and the unity of consciousness / William Hasker -- An argument from transtemporal identity for subject-body dualism / Martine Nida-Rumelin -- Part III. Intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge -- Burge's dualism / Bernard W. Kobes -- Modest dualism / Tyler Burge -- Descartes' revenge part II : the supervenience argument strikes back / Neal Judisch -- Nonreductive physicalism or emergent dualism : the argument from mental causation / Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchil -- Epistemological objections to materialism / Robert C. Koons -- Part IV. Alternatives to materialism -- Materialism, minimal emergentism, and the hard problem of consciousness / Terry Horgan -- Dualizing materialism / Michael Jubien -- Dualistic materialism / Joseph Almog -- Varieties of naturalism / Mario De Caro -- Against methodological materialism / Angus J.L. Menuge -- Soul, mind, and brain / Brian Leftow -- Materialism does not save the phenomena and the alternative which does / Uwe Meixner -- Substance dualism : a non-cartesian approach / E.J. Lowe.
Summary: The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-481) and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Arguments from consciousness -- Against materialism / Laurence BonJour -- A simple view of consciousness / Adam Pautz -- Saving appearances : a dilemma for physicalists / Charles Siewert -- The property dualism argument / Stephen L. White -- Kripke's argument against materialism / Eli Hirsch -- The self-consciousness argument : functionalism and the corruption of intentional content / George Bealer -- Part II. Arguments from unity and identity -- You are simple / David Barnett -- Persons and the unity of consciousness / William Hasker -- An argument from transtemporal identity for subject-body dualism / Martine Nida-Rumelin -- Part III. Intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge -- Burge's dualism / Bernard W. Kobes -- Modest dualism / Tyler Burge -- Descartes' revenge part II : the supervenience argument strikes back / Neal Judisch -- Nonreductive physicalism or emergent dualism : the argument from mental causation / Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchil -- Epistemological objections to materialism / Robert C. Koons -- Part IV. Alternatives to materialism -- Materialism, minimal emergentism, and the hard problem of consciousness / Terry Horgan -- Dualizing materialism / Michael Jubien -- Dualistic materialism / Joseph Almog -- Varieties of naturalism / Mario De Caro -- Against methodological materialism / Angus J.L. Menuge -- Soul, mind, and brain / Brian Leftow -- Materialism does not save the phenomena and the alternative which does / Uwe Meixner -- Substance dualism : a non-cartesian approach / E.J. Lowe.

The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge.

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