Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind (Value Inquiry Book Series / Cognitive Science, 345)

Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind
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Contents
Prelude
Part 1: The Science of Matter
	1 The Origin and Nature of Things
		1 Matter, Life and Mind
		2 Condensed Matter and Animal Minds
	2 On the Sciences of Emergence
		1 Emergence and Reduction
		2 In Search of a General Theory of Emergence
		3 The History of Hydrodynamics
Part 2: The Science of Mind
	3 Animal Minds
		1 Griffin and Edelman on Animal Minds
		2 Gibson and Gregory on Perception
		3 Donald and Deacon on Culture and Language
		4 An Appreciation and Critique of Donald
	4 On the Architectonics of Mind
		1 Freud and the New Unconscious
		2 Vertical and Horizontal Structures of Mind
		3 On the Quartet of Cardinal Qualities
Part 3: The Philosophy of Mind
	5 On the Logic of Emergence
		1 Emergence and Causation
		2 On Ghosts and Minds
	6 Historical-Philosophical Interlude
		1 From Descartes to the Present
		2 From Spinoza to the Present
	7 Cartesian Materialism and its Critics
		1 The MIT-Mind
		2 A Critique of Mechanical Reason
		3 On Minds and Machines
		4 The Phenomenological Opposition
Postlude
Bibliography
Index