Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics. Yet there are features of the mind consciousness, intentionality, normativity that do not seem to be reducible to physics or neuroscience. T...
Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism as a phenomenon characteristic of human cogniti...
Horst's book provides some philosophers or scientists of mind with a probably long-overdue update on philosophy of science. Its discussion of free will may interest the general audience the most, but hopefully it may also bring them to broader philosophical issues of mind and science. Horst shows us a sincere, fine effort to dissolve foundational concerns about mind and its place in the world while reminding us of our epistemic limitations. We can see the difficulty of resolving the conflict between the two images that we have of ourselves. For this schizophrenic tension, maybe, the best available therapy is not trying to remove it but being reminded of it. -Metapsychology Steven Horst has written a first-rate book that is philosophically informative and engaging. -Mind
Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Laws, Mind, and Free Will (MIT Press).