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| Preface | |
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| Emergentism of the Mental Described and Defended | |
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| History and Background | |
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| Surveying the Landscape | |
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| Emergentism Depicted | |
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| Classical Emergentism | |
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| Problems and Refinements | |
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| Emergence and the Mental | |
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| Relevant Emergentist Theses | |
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| Theories of the Mental I: Eliminativism | |
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| Theories of the Mental II: Dualism | |
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| Variations on Physicalist Themes | |
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| Non-Reductive Physicalism Contrasted with Emergentism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Fleshing Out the View | |
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| Elaboration of Supervenience and Explanation | |
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| Supervenience Essentials | |
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| Supervenience and Emergentism | |
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| Explanation Essentials | |
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| The Conceptual Gambit | |
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| Some Alternative Formulations | |
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| Transition | |
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| Coincidence: Realization and Identity | |
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| From Supervenience to Realization | |
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| Realization and Identity | |
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| Objections | |
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| Artifacts as Temporary Properties of Matter | |
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| Identity and Persistence Conditions | |
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| Artifacts and Ontology | |
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| Causation: Oppositions and Propinquities | |
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| The Menace of Non-Physical Causation | |
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| Arguments against Mental Causation | |
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| The Lessons of the Criticisms | |
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| Too Many Causes | |
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| A Distinction between Mental and Neurological Properties | |
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| Downward Causation | |
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| Ultimate Particles and Descending Support | |
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| A Causal Nexus | |
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| Belief, Desire, and the Physical | |
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| Access Consciousness Revisited | |
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| Two Standards of Physicality | |
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| Access-Conscious Properties and Behavior | |
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| Elaborating and Augmenting | |
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| Interlude | |
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| Orthodox Alternatives | |
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| Physicalism: Chauvinism and Pluralism | |
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| The Physicalist Landscape | |
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| Multiple Realizability | |
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| The Rudiments of Chauvinism | |
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| Levels, Functions, and Forms | |
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| Dora and Commander Data | |
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| Pluralism | |
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| Representationalism | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The Setting for Further Disccussion | |
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| Intensionality and Intentionality | |
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| Semantics Nsturotazed | |
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| A Feature of Content | |
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| Optimal Conditions | |
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| Teteological Semantic Arguments | |
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| Nonreductive Physicalism and Pure Token Identity | |
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| Introducing Pure Token Identity | |
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| A Most Curious Conundrum | |
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| Background Conditions for Identity Claims | |
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| Undisputed Cases and Complications | |
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| Token Physicalism Revisited | |
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| Materially Kosher Explanation | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |