Titlebook: Naturally Minded; Mental Causation, Vi Simon Bowes Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Sp

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Simon Bowesiences on the ways in which they teach. The authors adopt a variety of autoethnographic approaches in telling stories of transition and profound transformation as they each discuss how certain events in their lives have shaped their professional identities and methods of teaching. In telling their s

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Natural Kinds,cible. A renewed account is needed given an embodied, embedded, enactive, and evolutionary approach to cognition, as accounts based on the classical computationalist view of cognition are unsuited. The category terms we use in our scientific statements depend on both the real structure of the world

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Physicalist Reductionism, states are place holders for the complex causal explanations involving the fundamental kinds of the physical sciences. This chapter lays the ground for a counter to reductionism, clarifying the debate by answering the questions of what reduction involves, and what the nature of the stuff to which e

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Causal Explanations,out becoming overly epistemological. I settle for a ‘capacity’ view (from Nancy Cartwright), which sees causation in terms of the powers of objects to bring about effects given their context. Asking what aspects of a context should be regarded as ‘background’ or cause leads to the conclusion that ca

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Embodied Agents, to bring together previously isolated spaces of reasons. The importance of circular causal processes in evolutionary, developmental, and cognitive processes is foregrounded. These lead, in systems subject to selection, to the emergence of new kinds. The multi-level processes of evolution, natural a

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Natural Minds,al Machine Functionalism (VMF) fits naturally with a dispositional, context-dependent view of causation, and suits a topographical account of natural kind clusters. VMF provides a view that is respectably physical without implying reduction. Mind emerges over time through the feedback dynamics betwe