Psychoneural Reduction: The New Wave 论文

摘要

Part 1 Why reduction? and why a new-wave version? reductionism revived as a program a puzzle about nonreductive physicalism. Part 2 Exploiting Hooker's insights: Clifford Hooker's general theory of reduction applying Hooker's theory - the reduction of the simple thermodynamics of gases to kinetic theory and statistical mechanics the intertheoretic-reduction reformulation of the mind-body problem the place for everything argument. Part 3 a theory of intertheoretic reduction: the structuralist model of theories the reduction relation rho the too weak to be adequate challenge blurs on rho -significantly corrective reductions the intertheoretic-reduction spectrum and the distinction between genuine albeit bumpy reductions and mere historical theory successions. Part 4 The irrelevance of arguments against classical reduction: antireductionist arguments based on Davidson's principle of Anomalousness of the Mental Fodor's conceptual argument from multiple realizability the obvious objection to the across individuals at times counter three methodological caveats and the mistakes they rest upon from multiple realizability to a final methodological caveat and the introduction of Token-Token reduction to address it. Part 5 The put or shut up challenge: associative learning - it's not what you thing it is lessons for antireductionists is the foundational model of theories and theory reductions applicable to the cognitive and brain sciences? Part 6 Revisionary physicalism: the core properties of propositional attitudes revisionary physicalism.