Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental

by Robert Kirk

How are truths about physical and mental states related? Physicalism entails that non-physical truths are redescriptions of a world specifiable in narrowly physical terms. In The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental Robert Kirk argues that physicalists must therefore hold that the physical truth "logico-conceptually" entails the mental truth: it is impossible for broadly logical and conceptual reasons that the former should have held without the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199669414
• ISBN13: 9780199669417
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"