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Author:   Robinson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.426kg
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9780198236771

ISBN 10:   0198236778
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   31 October 1996
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Howard Robinson: Introduction 1: George Myro: Thinking 2: Bob Hale: Physicalism and Mathematics 3: Ralph Walker: Transcendental Arguments Against Physicalism 4: Grant Gillett: Actions, Causes, and Mental Ascriptions 5: George Bealer: Materialism and the Logical Structure of Intentionality 6: Steven J. Wagner: Truth, Physicalism, and Ultimate Theory 7: Howard Robinson: The Anti-Materialist Strategy and the `Knowledge Argument' 8: Richard Warner: Incorrigibility 9: Nicholas Nathan: Weak Materialism 10: A.D. Smith: Non-Reductive Physicalism? 11: Peter Forrest: Difficulties with Physicalism, and a Programme for Dualists 12: Michael Lockwood: The Grain Problem 13: John Foster: The Succinct Case for Idealism Bibliography, Index

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a considerable set of challenges to contemporary physicalism. The essays are largely non- technical and are typically clear and substantial. The editor has contributed ... a useful introduction identifying the essays' main themes and clarifying some important problems facing physicalism ... Recommended for any library supporting advanced undergraduate or graduate work in philosophy and psychology. Paul K. Moser, Choice

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Howard Robinson is Soros Professor of Philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Matter and Sense (CUP, 1982) and Perception (Routledge, 1994), editor of George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues in the World's Classics series (OUP 1996), and co-editor of the following volumes: Essays on Berkeley (OUP, 1985), The Pursuit of Mind (Carcanet, 1991), and Aristotle and the Later Tradition (OUP, 1991).

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