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Klappentext This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984, Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by philosophers and students alike. Zusammenfassung An expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers! many of which are now regarded as classics! the book also includes four papers published since the first edition appeared. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Second Edition 1: Self-reference and self-awareness 2: Persons and their pasts 3: Time without change 4: On projecting the unprojectible 5: Conceptual connections and other minds 6: Embodiment and behavior 7: Immortality and dualism 8: Phenomenal similarity 9: Functionalism and qualia 10: Causality and properties 11: Identity, properties, and causality 12: Some varieties of functionalism 13: On an argument for dualism 14: Absent qualia are impossible - a reply to Block 15: The inverted spectrum 16: On what there are 17: Self and substance 18: Causal and metaphysical necessity 19: Realization and mental causation References Index
