Tag: Alex Rosenberg

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post

Author
Eric Holloway
Date
November 29, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind

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Agency, Alex Rosenberg, Determinism, Featured, free will, intentionality, Longform, Mind-Brain Distinction, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Reductionism, soul}

Has Neuroscience Disproved Thinking?

_{A philosopher argues that Nobel Prize-winning research shows that the theory of mind is just another illusion, useful for survival and success} _{Eric Holloway

November 29, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

We've all seen this sort of argument before in many other guises. It is commonly called “reductionism.” The reductionist claims that, because an object can be construed as made up of parts, the object is just the parts. It is like saying that because an article like this one is constructed from letters of the alphabet, the article is only rows of letters. Read More ›