
The Metaphysics of Mind
Michael Tye(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 2. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-521-11526-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this provocative book, Michael Tye presents his unique account of the metaphysical foundations of psychological discourse. In place of token identity theory or eliminative materialism, he advocates a generalisation of the adverbial approach to sensory experience, the 'operator theory'. He applies this to the analysis of prepositional attitudes, arguing that mental statements cannot involve reference to mental events or objects and that therefore causal statements about the mental cannot be regarded as asserting relations between events. This adverbial theory has the virtue of being both simple and systematic and is an important contribution to the philosophy of mind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-11526-1 (9780521115261)
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The Metaphysics of Mind
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02/1989
Cambridge University Press
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The Metaphysics of Mind
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Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. An objection to the token identity theory; 2. Against mental events; 3. The foundations of the operator theory; 4. Bodily sensation; 5. Perceptual sensation; 6. Physicalism and the phenomenal qualities of experience; 7. The propositional attitudes of folk psychology; 8. The metaphysics of cognitive psychology; Index.