Start with a mix of powers, like mine or Mumford's, and Giere's perspectivism. Mix in a great deal of Horst. The result is a lovely pluralist view of scientific models and laws, a view that meshes neatly with the matching doctrine of Cognitive Pluralism that Horst develops from his detailed case studies and that leaves ample room for -- but does not force -- free will. -- Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics and University of California, San Diego Steven Horst's Laws, Mind, and Free Will has both the clarity, scope, and scholarship needed for an excellent text and the original analysis appropriate to a significant contribution to the literature, especially on the topic of laws of nature. It will reward readers in philosophy of mind and cognitive science and provide advanced students with an excellent treatment of important literature. -- Robert Audi, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Laws, Mind, and Free Will (MIT Press).
Steven Horst has written a first-rate book that is philosophically
informative and engaging.
*Mind*
Horst's book provides some philosophers or scientists of mind with
a probably long-overdue update on philosophy of science. Its
discussion of free will may interest the general audience the most,
but hopefully it may also bring them to broader philosophical
issues of mind and science. Horst shows us a sincere, fine effort
to dissolve foundational concerns about mind and its place in the
world while reminding us of our epistemic limitations. We can see
the difficulty of resolving the conflict between the two images
that we have of ourselves. For this schizophrenic tension, maybe,
the best available therapy is not trying to remove it but being
reminded of it.
*Metapsychology*
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