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Process, Action, and Experience (Hardcover)
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Process, Action, and Experience (Hardcover)
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There has been a philosophical upheaval recently in our
understanding of the metaphysics of the mind. The philosophy of
mind and action has traditionally treated its subject matter as
consisting of states and events, and completely ignored the
category of ongoing process. So the mental things that happen -
experiences and actions - have been taken to be completed events
and not ongoing processes. But events by their very nature as
completed wholes are never present to the agent or subject; only
ongoing processes can be present to a subject in the way required
for conscious experience and practical self-knowledge. This
suggests that a proper understanding of processes is required to
understand subjective experience and agency. This volume explores
the possibility and advantages of taking processes to be the
subject matter of the philosophy of mind and action. The central
defining feature of the process argument is its use of the
progressive (as opposed to perfective) aspect. But beyond this,
philosophers working on the metaphysics of processes do not agree.
The contributors to this volume take up this argument in the
metaphysics of processes. Are processes continuants? Are they
particulars at all, or should we rather be thinking of process
activity as a kind of stuff? Process, Action, and Experience
considers whether practical reasoning and practical self-knowledge
require thinking of action in process terms, and it considers
arguments for the processive nature of conscious experience.
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