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Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind - How Hylomorphism Solves the Mind-Body Problem (Hardcover)
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Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind - How Hylomorphism Solves the Mind-Body Problem (Hardcover)
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Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind is the first book to show how
hylomorphism can be used to solve mind-body problems-persistent
problems understanding how thought, feeling, perception, and other
mental phenomena fit into the physical world described by our best
science. Hylomorphism claims that structure is a basic ontological
and explanatory principle. Some individuals, paradigmatically
living things, consist of materials that are structured or
organized in various ways. Those structures are responsible for
individuals being the kinds of things they are, and having the
kinds of powers or capacities they have. From a hylomorphic
perspective, mind-body problems are byproducts of a worldview that
rejects structure. Hylomorphic structure carves out distinctive
individuals from the otherwise undifferentiated sea of matter and
energy described by our best physics, and it confers on those
individuals distinctive powers, including the powers to think,
feel, and perceive. A worldview that rejects hylomorphic structure
lacks a basic principle which distinguishes the parts of the
physical universe that can think, feel, and perceive from those
that can't, and without such a principle, the existence of those
powers in the physical world can start to look inexplicable and
mysterious. But if mental phenomena are structural phenomena, as
hylomorphism claims, then they are uncontroversially part of the
physical world, for on the hylomorphic view, structure is
uncontroversially part of the physical world. Hylomorphism thus
provides an elegant way of solving mind-body problems.
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