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table of contents
Half Title Page
BSPS Open Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Unity of Science and Reduction
1. Introduction
2. Deductive and Ontological Unification
3. The Deductive-Nomological Model of Reduction
4. The Model of Reduction by Analogy
5. The Reduction of Thermodynamics to Classical Mechanics
6. The Synthetic Model of Reduction
7. The Reduction of Cognitive Phenomena by Neurophysiology: Elimination or Co-Evolution?
8. Conclusion
Chapter 2: Can Reductive Explanations Be Constructed A Priori?
1. Introduction
2. A Priori Reduction in the Framework of Two-Dimensional Semantics
3. Two Concepts of Reduction and Realization: Micro-Macro and Role-Occupant
4. Multi-Realizability
5. Conclusion
Chapter 3: Cognitive Abilities as Macroscopic Dispositional Properties
1. Introduction
2. General Arguments against the Efficacy of Dispositions
3. Dispositional and Theoretical Properties
4. The Epiphenomenal Trilemma of Macroscopic Dispositions
5. The Example of Colour Representation
6. Dispositional Properties with Multiple Manifestations
7. Conclusion
Chapter 4: Emergent Properties
1. Introduction
2. Minimal Conditions and Weak Emergence
3. Broad and the Epistemic Conception of Emergence
4. Strong Emergence in Terms of the Impossibility of Deduction
5. Emergence as Non-Aggregativity
6. Emergence in Terms of Non-Linear Interaction and Mill’s Principle of the Composition of Causes
7. Qualitative and Quantitative Difference
8. The Limits of Explaining Emergent Properties
9. Avoiding Panpsychism
10. Response to a Version of Kripke’s Argument against the Identity Theory
11. Emergence, Reduction, and Supervenience
12. Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Causal Efficacy of High-Level Properties
1. Introduction
2. Causality, Causal Responsibility, and Causal Explanation
3. Mental Causation and Downward Causation
3.1. Macrocausation without an Underlying Microscopic Mechanism
3.2. Kim’s Argument against Mental Causation: Preliminaries
3.3. The First Part of Kim’s Argument: No Mental Causation without Downward Causation
3.4. The Second Part of Kim’s Argument: No Downward Causation
4. Mental Properties or Physical Properties Conceived with Mental Concepts?
5. Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Index
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