Consider all. Test All. Hold on to the good.
Objects and Persons
Trenton Merricks (Oxford University Press: Dec 11, 2003), 216 pages.
Table of Contents
- 1 Explaining Eliminativism 1
- I Eliminativism: The Basic Idea 2
- II Eliminativism: Not as Bad as you might Think 8
- III The Linguistic Charge of Contradiction 12
- IV The Metaphysical Charge of Contradiction 20
- 2 Considerations in Favour of Eliminativism 30
- I The Water in the Pool 30
- II The Sorites Game 32
- III The Statue and the Lump 38
- IV Brains and Thinkers 47
- 3 Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism 56
- I The Causal Principle 57
- II Atomic Causation 59
- III Causal Overdetermination 66
- IV The Moral of the Overdetermination Argument 79
- 4 Surviving Eliminativism 85
- I Step One 89
- II Conscious Mental Properties and Premiss (1a) 93
- III Objections to the Defence of Premiss (1a) 96
- IV Step One Again 104
- V Step Two 107
- VI On What Composite Objects Exist 114
- 5 Considerations in Favour of Eliminating Us? 118
- I Persons and the Water in the Pool 119
- II Persons and the Sorites Game 124
- III Statues, Lumps, and Persons 130
- IV Brains, Thinkers, and Persons 135
- 6 Mental Causation and Free Will 138
- I The Exclusion Argument(s) 138
- II Causal Overdetermination Again 146
- III The ‘Bottom-Up’ Threat to Free Will 155
- 7 Belief and Practice 162
- I False Folk Beliefs 162
- II False Folk Beliefs are Nearly as Good as True: Justification 171
- III False Folk Beliefs are Nearly as Good as True: Practice 175
- IV And Yet I Often Say ‘There are statues’ 186
- References 191
- Index 201