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

© 2025 Max Kistler

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This book is available in an Open Access digital format published under a CC-BY-NCND 4.0 Creative Commons license, available freely to readers everywhere, at no cost to authors. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: The material mind : reduction and emergence / Max Kistler.

Other titles: Esprit matériel. English

Names: Kistler, Max, author

Description: Series statement: BSPS open series, 2564-3169 ; no. 3 | Translation of: L’esprit matériel : réduction et émergence. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20240511301 | Canadiana (ebook) 20240511360 | ISBN 9781773856056 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781773856063 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773856087 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773856094 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781773856070 (Open Access PDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Materialism. | LCSH: Reductionism. | LCSH: Emergence (Philosophy) | LCSH: Mind and body.

Classification: LCC B825 .K5713 2025 | DDC 146/.3—dc23

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

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Cover image: Colourbox #48745778

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

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