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The Waning of Materialism (Paperback)
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The Waning of Materialism (Paperback)
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Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find
it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from
conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person,
from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The
contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind,
metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the
most recent versions and defenses of materialism. The modal
arguments of Kripke and Chalmers, Jackson's knowledge argument,
Kim's exclusion problem, and Burge's anti-individualism all play a
part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the
materialist research program. Several papers address the
implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the
psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of
commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a
priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of
materialism--reductive and non-reductive, functionalist,
eliminativist, and new wave materialism--come under sustained and
trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to
the materialist conception of the person receive new and
illuminating attention, including anti-materialist versions of
naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic
hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.
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