| 书目名称 | Persons and Minds | | 副标题 | The Prospects of Non | | 编辑 | Joseph Margolis | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism. Professor Margolis starts his investigation, however, with a critique of the range of contemporary materialist theories, and does not find them viable. None of them, he argues, "can accommodate in a convincing way the most distinctive features of the mental life of men and oflower creatures and the imaginative possibilities of discovery and technology" (p. 8). In an extraordinarily rich analysis, Margolis carefully considers and criticizes mind-body identity theories, physicalism, eliminative materialism, behaviorism, as inadequate precisely in that they are reductive. He argues, then, for ramified concepts of emergence, and embodiment which will sustain a philosophically coherent account both of the distinctive non-natural character of persons and of their being naturally embodied. But Margolis provokes us to ask, what is an em bodied mind? The crucial context for him is not the plain physical body as such, but culture. "Persons", he writes, "are in a sense not natural entities: they exist only in cultural contexts and are identifiable as such only by refer ence to their mastery of language and of whatever fu | | 出版日期 | Book 1978 | | 关键词 | animals; body; corpus; culture; identity; ideology; interaction; language acquisition; materialism; nature; pe | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9801-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-0863-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-9801-8Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | | issn_series | 0068-0346 | | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978 |
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