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A Pluralist Theory of the Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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A Pluralist Theory of the Mind (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science, 2
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This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by
questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary
metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when
exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all
entities, and will propose a pluralist alternative that takes the
diversity of our conceptual resources and ontologies seriously.
This general pluralist account is applied to issues in philosophy
of mind to argue that contemporary debates about the mind-body
problem are built on this problematic framework of placement
problems. The starting point is the plurality of ontologies in
scientific practice. Not only can we describe the world in terms of
physical, biological, or psychological ontologies, but any serious
engagement with scientific ontologies will identify more specific
ontologies in each domain. For example, there is not one unified
ontology for biology, but rather a diversity of scientific
specializations with different ontological needs. Based on this
account of scientific practice the author argues that there is no
reason to assume that ontological unification must be possible
everywhere. Without this ideal, the scope of ontological
unification turns out to be an open empirical question and there is
no need to present unification failures as philosophically puzzling
"placement problems".
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