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Combining Minds: How to Think about Composite Subjectivity
Contributor(s): Roelofs, Luke (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190859059     ISBN-13: 9780190859053
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $118.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
Dewey: 141
LCCN: 2018029354
Series: Philosophy of Mind
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (1.4 lbs) 360 pages
 
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Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is possible, and what it would mean if it were. Roelofs surveys many areas of philosophy and psychology, analysing and evaluating denials and affirmations of mental combination that have been made in regard to
everything from brain structure, to psychological conflict, to social cooperation. In each case, he carefully distinguishes different senses in which subjectivity might be composite, and different arguments for and against them, concluding that composite subjectivity, in various forms, may be much
more common than we think.

Combining Minds is also the first book-length defence of constitutive panpsychism against all aspects of the 'combination problem'. Constitutive panpsychism is an increasingly prominent theory, holding that consciousness is naturally inherent in matter, with human consciousness built up out of this
basic consciousness the same way human bodies are built up out of physical matter. Such a view requires that many very simple conscious minds can compose a single very complex one, and a major objection made against constitutive panpsychism is that they cannot - that minds simply do not combine.
This is the combination problem, which Roelofs scrutinizes, dissects, and refutes. It reflects not only contemporary debates but a long philosophical tradition of contrasting the apparently indivisible unity of the mind with the deep and pervasive divisibility of the material world. Combining Minds
draws together the threads of this problem and develops a powerful and flexible response to it.
 
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