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Mind and Causality
Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series A: Theory and Method. Contributions to the development of theory and method in the study of consciousness.
Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Editorial Board David Chalmers
Earl Mac Cormac
University of Arizona
Duke University
Gordon G. Globus
George Mandler
University of California at Irvine
University of California at San Diego
Ray Jackendoff
John R. Searle
Brandeis University
University of California at Berkeley
Christof Koch
Petra Stoerig
California Institute of Technology
Universität Düsseldorf
Stephen Kosslyn
† Francisco Varela
Harvard University
C.R.E.A., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Volume 55 Mind and Causality Edited by Alberto Peruzzi
Mind and Causality Edited by
Alberto Peruzzi University of Florence
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mind and Causality / edited by Alberto Peruzzi. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 55) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Philosophy of mind-Congresses. 2. Causation--Congresses. I. Peruzzi, Alberto. II. Series. BD418.3.M554 2004 128’.2-dc22 isbn 90 272 5189 4 (Eur.) / 1 58811 474 0 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) isbn 90 272 5190 8 (Eur.) / 1 58811 475 9 (US) (Pb; alk. paper)
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Table of contents
Preface Chapter 1 Causality and development: Past, present and future Brian Hopkins
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Chapter 2 Perception of causality: A dynamical analysis Riccardo Luccio and Donata Milloni
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Chapter 3 Embodiment and the philosophy of mind Andy Clark
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Chapter 4 Causes and motivations: Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology confronts psychological studies Antonella Lucarelli
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Chapter 5 Mental causation and intentionality in a mind naturalising theory Sandro Nannini
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Chapter 6 The envious frog Marco Salucci
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Chapter 7 Knowing what it is like and knowing how Luca Malatesti
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Chapter 8 Human cognition: An evolutionary perspective Ian Tattersall Chapter 9 Space, time and cognition: From the standpoint of mathematics and natural science Francis Bailly and Giuseppe Longo
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Chapter 10 Causality in the texture of mind Alberto Peruzzi
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Index
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Preface
The notion of causalit