The Emergent Self,9780801487606

The Emergent Self

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ISBN13: 9780801487606
ISBN10: 0801487609
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary

In The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in contemporary analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind. His provocative and clearly written book challenges physicalist views of human mental functioning and advances the concept of mind as an emergent individual.

Author Biography

William Hasker is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Huntington College

Table of Contents

Preface ix
What Can't Be Eliminated
1(26)
Eliminative Materialism
2(3)
The Self-Refutation Argument
5(3)
Does the Self-Refutation Argument Beg the Question?
8(5)
Is Eliminative Materialism Self-Refuting?
13(4)
Do the Contradictions Matter?
17(3)
Austere Eliminativism and Cognitive Paralysis
20(2)
Eliminative Materialism: A Diagnosis
22(5)
The Limits of Identity
27(31)
Quasi-Eliminativist Strategies: Analytic Behaviorism and Functionalism
28(4)
Mind-Body Identity Theories
32(8)
The Supervenience of Mind on Body
40(18)
Why the Physical Isn't Closed
58(23)
Supervenience, Causal Closure, and Mechanism
59(5)
The Argument from Reason
64(11)
Mechanism and Darwinist Epistemology
75(6)
Free Will and Agency
81(29)
Libertarian Free Will
82(4)
The Frankfurt Counterexamples
86(8)
Free Will Without an Agent
94(5)
Agent Causation
99(11)
Three Arguments for Substance Dualism
110(37)
Descartes according to Swinburne
111(5)
Descartes according to Taliaferro
116(6)
The Unity-of-Consciousness Argument
122(25)
Problematic Dualisms
147(24)
Cartesian Dualism
147(1)
Objections to Cartesian Dualism
148(9)
The Swinburne Variations
157(4)
Thomistic Dualism
161(6)
Critique of Thomistic Dualism
167(4)
Emergent Dualism
171(33)
Concepts of Emergence
171(7)
Two Recent Emergentists
178(10)
Emergent Dualism
188(9)
Further Problems
197(7)
Prospects for Survival
204(33)
Traditional Dualism and Survival
206(5)
Materialism and Survival: Re-creation
211(11)
Materialism and Survival: Body-Switching and Body-Splitting
222(10)
Emergent Dualism and Survival
232(5)
Index 237

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