This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and
their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem
irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of
comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently
non-natural powers of thought. The difficulty is to understand how
our mental capacities, no less than our biological or chemical
characteristics, might ultimately be products of our fundamental
physical constituents, and to do so in a way that preserves the
phenomena. Externalists argue that the significance of thought
turns on the circumstances of thinkers; reductionists hold that
mental characteristics are physical; eliminationists contend that
the concept of thought belongs to an outmoded folk theory of
behavior. John Heil explores these topics and points the way to a
naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the
physical world alongside the non-mental.
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