A Pluralist Theory of the Mind
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-22737-5 (ISBN)
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".
David Ludwig is a philosopher of science at VU University Amsterdam. He studied philosophy, history of science, and cognitive science in Berlin, Potsdam, and Stanford. His research in philosophy and history of the life sciences focuses on debates about scientific ontologies and human nature.
Introduction.- Pluralism and Scientific Practice.- Beyond Placement Problems.- A Historical Diagnosis.- Part I In Defense of Conceptual Relativity.- Conceptual Relativity in Philosophy.- Conceptual Relativity in Science.- The Demarcation Problem of Conceptual Relativity.- Part II From Conceptual Relativity to Vertical Pluralism.- The Argument from Horizontal Pluralism.- The Argument from Ontological Non-Fundamentalism.- Part III Beyond the Mind-Body Problem.- Consciousness.- Beyond Dualism and Physicalism.- Mental Causation.- Epilogue: Metaphysics in a Complex World.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.11.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | European Studies in Philosophy of Science |
Zusatzinfo | XIV, 201 p. 2 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | Conceptual relativity • Humanities, Social Sciences and Law • Metaontology • Metaphysics • Natural kinds • Phenomenal Consciousness • Philosophy of Biology • Philosophy of mind • philosophy of science • Reductive Explanation • Scientific pluralism |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-22737-8 / 3319227378 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-22737-5 / 9783319227375 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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