Mind And Causality


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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 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. 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) 20003063801 © 2004 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Preface Chapter 1 Causality and development: Past, present and future Brian Hopkins vii 1 Chapter 2 Perception of causality: A dynamical analysis Riccardo Luccio and Donata Milloni 19 Chapter 3 Embodiment and the philosophy of mind Andy Clark 35 Chapter 4 Causes and motivations: Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology confronts psychological studies Antonella Lucarelli 53 Chapter 5 Mental causation and intentionality in a mind naturalising theory Sandro Nannini 69 Chapter 6 The envious frog Marco Salucci 97 Chapter 7 Knowing what it is like and knowing how Luca Malatesti 119  Table of contents 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 131 149 Chapter 10 Causality in the texture of mind Alberto Peruzzi 199 Index 229 Preface The notion of causalit
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