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The ontology of mind : events, processes, and states

Author: Helen Steward
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series: Oxford philosophical monographs.
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Steward, Helen.
Ontology of mind.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)645846323
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Helen Steward
ISBN: 0198240988 9780198240983
OCLC Number: 36083656
Notes: Based on the author's doctoral thesis.
Description: viii, 276 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Events and Processes --
Events, Particularity, and Properties --
Kim: Exemplifications of Properties at Times --
Property Exemplifications and Theories of Mind --
Particularity and the Secret Life Requirement --
Bennett: Events as Tropes --
Bennett's Argument against Anomalous Monism --
Events as Changes --
Happenings --
Events as Changes in Objects --
Is there a Motivation for the RCO? --
Composite Events and the Composition Relation --
Are there Changeless Events? --
States and Change --
The Temporal Strategy: Time and Aspect --
Vendler and Kenny --
Types of Verb versus Types of Predication --
Aspect --
Nominalization Transcriptions: Events and Processes --
Non-paradigmatic Events --
Event and Process as Ontological Categories --
Temporal Shape --
States, Causation, and Causal Explanation --
States and the Type-Token Distinction --
States and Properties --
Nominalization Transcriptions: States --
The 'State of ...' Locution --
The Type-Token Distinction --
Token States in Philosophy of Mind --
Particulars, Facts, and Causal Explanations --
Forms of Causal Explanation --
Singular Causal Claims --
Sentential Causal Explanations --
The Existential Generalization Account --
Causation and Causal Explanation --
Efficacy, Causing, and Relevance --
Child on Causation and Causal Explanation --
Program and Process Explanations --
Sentential Explanations as Program Explanations --
Why there are no Causally Efficacious Properties --
States and Causality in Philosophy of Mind --
The Network Model of Causation in Philosophy of Mind.
Series Title: Oxford philosophical monographs.
Responsibility: Helen Steward.
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