Metaphysics of Mind
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- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:11:38 -0800 (PST)
Philosophy of mind is at a watershed. Recent debates are making it
increasingly clear that answers to the deepest questions must be
sought, not in the laboratories of neuroscientists, but in pursuit of
old fashioned metaphysics. . . . I am not disparaging neuroscientific
endeavors. On the contrary, as a materialist, I firmly believe that an
understanding of the mind depends ultimately on our understanding the
brain. . . . however, issues now at the forefront of the philosophy of
mind are fundamentally metaphysical in character. (This is scarcely
surprising. The philosophy of mind is, after all, a kind of applied
metaphysics. It is crazy to think that philosophers of mind can ignore
or remain neutral on questions of ontology.) Link:
http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/mm.htm
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