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标题：Dewey's Metaphysics of Mind
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作者：Wilson Mendonça
期刊名称：Abstracta: Linguagem, Mente e Acao
印刷版ISSN：1807-9792
出版年度：2007
卷号：03
期号：02
出版社：Abstracta
摘要：In Experience and Nature Dewey makes ¡°an attempt to contribute to what has come to be called an ¡®emergent¡¯ theory of mind¡±. On a first approach, that doesn¡¯t look very innovative to our contemporary materialist convictions. Indeed, Kim argues persuasively that a central claim of emergentism¡ªconcerning the irreducibility of emergent properties¡ªis irremediably at odds with a view of mental causation that follows from some very plausible physicalist assumptions. This is ¡°the problem of downward causation.¡± I intend to show that Dewey¡¯s brand of emergentism actually allows an adequate reply to the very important worry formulated by Kim.