Reduction

Wittgenstein über das Verstehen Reduction – Abstraction – Analysis

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/ Volume 12

Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb
Reduction
Between the Mind and the Brain

The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the “puzzles of the mind”. But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

About the Editors

Alexander Hieke is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He has edited, amongst others, volumes on Free Logic and Ernst Mally. He is the author of various articles and books on metaphysics and ontology, logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology.

Hannes Leitgeb is Professor at the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He is a Managing Editor of Studia Logica, an Associate Editor of Erkenntnis, a Subject Editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and an Editor of the Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap. He is the author of numerous papers and books on logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

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