Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"The mind's place in nature" is the topic of this book. How do our actions fit into a world that is altered through our agency? How do we accommodate our understanding of one another as fellow subjects of experience? The discussion explores human agency and everyday psychological explanation.
目次
Part 1 Ontological questions: introduction - persons and their states and events
Descartes, Rorty and the mind-body fiction postscript - Rorty on anomalous monism
physicalism, events and part-whole relations
which physical events are mental events?
postscript of part one - the nomological character of causality. Part 2 Agency: introduction - action and the mental-physical divide
bodily movements, actions and epistemology - postscript - a disjunctive conception of bodily movements
physicalist thinking and conceptions of behaviour
agency and causal explanation. Part 3 Mind, causation and explanation: introduction - personal and subpersonal levels
Dennett's naturalism
causation in intuitive physics and in commonsense psychology
semantic innocence and psychological understanding - postscript - externalism.