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The Emergent Self

The Emergent Self


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In this text, Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind. His book challenges physicalist views of human mental functioning and advances the concept of mind as an emergent individual.'

Table of Contents:

1. WHAT CAN'T BE ELIMINATED
Eliminative Materialism
The Self-Refutation Argument
Does the Self-Refutation Argument Beg the Question?
Is Eliminative Materialism Self-Refuting?
Do the Contradictions Matter?
Austere Eliminativism and Cognitive Paralysis
Eliminative Materialism: A Diagnosis2. THE LIMITS OF IDENTITY
Quasi-Eliminativist Strategies: Analytic Behaviorism and Functionalism
Mind-Body Identity Theories
The Supervenience of Mind on Body3. WHY THE PHYSICAL ISN'T CLOSED
Supervenience, Causal Closure, and Mechanism
The Argument from Reason
Mechanism and Datwinist Epistemology4. FREE WILL AND AGENCY
Libertarian Free Will
The Frankfurt Counterexamples
Free Will Without an Agent
Agent Causation5. THREE ARGUMENTS FOR SUBSTANCE DUALISM
Descartes according to Swinburne
Descartes according to Taliaferro
The Unity-of-Consciousness Argument6. PROBLEMATIC DUALISMS
Cartesian Dualism
Objections to Cartesian Dualism
The Swinburne Variations
Thomistic Dualism
Critique of Thomistic Dualism7. EMERGENT DUALISM
Concepts of Emergence
Two Recent Emergentists
Emergent Dualism
Further Problems8. PROSPECTS FOR SURVIVAL
Traditional Dualism and Survival
Materialism and Survival: Re-creation
Materialism and Survival: Body-Switching and Body-Splitting
Emergent Dualism and SurvivalINDEX



About the Author :

William Hasker is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Huntington College. He is the author of God, Time, and Knowledge, also from Cornell.



Review :

The Emergent Self is valuable not least because it runs so thoroughly against the grain of contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics... It will be interesting to see how the internalist Kantians he discusses in this book—Henry Allison, Marcia Baron, David Cummiskey, Barbara Herman, Thomas Hill, Christine Korsgaard, and Onora O'Neill—respond to his challenging arguments.

(Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)

Hasker presents an engaging and carefully argued account of why most contemporary forms of materialism and dualism fail to explain mind and self. This is the kind of wide-ranging and careful study that deserves a symposium! Highly recommended.

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801436529
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801436524
  • Publisher Date: 26 Aug 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 548 gr


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