| Description |
315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Foundations of communication and cognition = Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition |
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Foundations of communication and cognition.
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| Contents |
""Introduction � Reductive and Nonreductive Physicalism""; ""Part I""; ""Emergence � A Systematic View on its Historical Facets""; ""The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism""; ""Supervenience, Emergence, and Reduction""; ""“Downward Causation� in Emergentism and Non-reductive Physicalism""; ""A Contemporary Look at Emergence""; ""Part II""; ""Nonreductive Materialism and the Nature of Intertheoretical Constraint""; ""Subjectivity and Knowing What It�s Like""; ""Physiology, Phenomenology, and Spinoza�s True Colors""; ""Qualia and Brain Processes""; ""Part III"" |
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""Understanding Complexity""""Emergent Phenomena and Complex Systems""; ""On the Way to a Theory of Antireductionist Arguments""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index"" |
| Notes |
"Most of the papers included in this volume were originally presented at a conference ... held in Oct. 1990, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany."--Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Logical positivism -- Congresses.
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Reductionism -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Beckermann, Ansgar, 1945-
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Flohr, H. (Hans), 1936-
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Kim, Jaegwon.
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| LC no. |
92004832 |
| ISBN |
3110128802 (alk. paper) |
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