10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANOMALOUS MONISM»
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anomalous monism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind
julie. yoo. ANOMALOUS monism is a view about the relationship between the
mind and the body, which attempts to strike a delicate balance between the
thesis of materialism, on the one hand, and the irreducibility of the mental, on the
other.
Brian McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann, Sven Walter, 2009
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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
30 Anomalous Monism Inagaki, K. (1989). Developmental shift in biological
inference processes: From similarity-based to category-based attribution. Human
Development 32: 79-87. Looft, W. R., and W. H. Bartz. (1969). Animism revived.
Robert Andrew Wilson, Frank C. Keil, 2001
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Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction
To put it in terms that we will be employing in Chapter 4, anomalous monism
does not seem able to accommodate causation by content. This objection,
although frequently taken to be devastating to Davidson's position, is in fact
rather ...
4
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-body Problem ...
This means that the monism of anomalous monism is no less a negative thesis
than the anomalism of anomalous monism. That anomalous monism doesn't say
much about the mind- body relation can be seen from an analogy. Consider the ...
the argument for anomalous monism say about how our mentality is related to
our bodily nature? The answer, I believe, is: not much. What it says is mainly
negative, namely, that there are no significant relationships between mental ...
6
Davidson and Spinoza: Mind, Matter and Morality
I shall combine Spinoza's naturalistic substance monism and the strong theory of
causality that such a view invites with Davidson's anomalous monism. The
purpose of doing this is to make both views work as one. That is, Spinoza's
apparent ...
Floris van der Burg, 2007
7
Contemporary Materialism: A Reader
Such is Davidson's celebrated "anomalous monism". Davidson's ontology
recognizes individual events as spatiotemporal particulars. And the principal
structure over these events is causal structure; the network of causal relations
that ...
Paul K. Moser, J. D. Trout, 2002
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A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Davidson has tried to defend anomalous monism from this objection, but most of
his critics seem to think that the objection is unavoidable. Despite these
difficulties, Davidson's views have been extremely influential. In addition to token
identity, ...
9
Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction
In the same way, anomalous monism claims that the same event can be
described by two different sentences, a sentence framed in psychological terms
such as 'Xavier wants to vacation in Italy' and a sentence framed in physical
terms such ...
10
Dialogues with Davidson: Acting, Interpreting, Understanding
Anomalous monism seeks to reconcile these three premises in the context of a
dual-aspect monistic ontology. Thus, while addressing the problem raised by the
Kantian antinomy of freedom and determinism, Davidson offers a very different ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANOMALOUS MONISM»
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