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Hegel, Organicism, & Cognitive Science

Posted on February 27th, 2010 in Hegel, physicalism, Cognitive Science, Organicism.

McDonough, Richard. “Hegel’s Organic Account of Mind and Critique of Cognitive Science,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 19., no. 1, 1996, pp. 67-97.
Emergence or Reduction?: Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism, edited by Ansgar Beckermann, Hans Flohr, Jaegwon Kim. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1992.
I’ve had this undeveloped post sitting in limbo […]

Engels vs. Davidson

Posted on September 26th, 2007 in Materialism, Engels, Donald Davidson, physicalism, anomalous monism.

Sayers, Sean. “Engels and Materialism,” in Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation, edited by Christopher J. Arthur (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), pp. 153-172.
A criticism of physicalism and dualism and a comparison of the non-reductive materialism of Friedrich Engels and Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism, which Sayers deems unable to adequately account for the […]