Mind: Ontology and Explanation(English, Electronic book text, Addis Laird)

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Mind: Ontology and Explanation(English, Electronic book text, Addis Laird) is written by Addis Laird and published by De Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110327155 (ISBN 10) and 9783110327151 (ISBN 13).

In this collection of papers by Laird Addis, published over approximately a quarter century, the main topics are the ontology of mind and the role of mind in the explanation of behavior. Addis defends a theory of natural signs, by which there is, in every conscious state including emotional states, an intrinsically intentional entity. He also argues that explanations of behavior by dispositional mental states, while not themselves causal explanations, presuppose the possibility of such explanations. The theory of dispositions is applied also to the theories of Chomsky and Freud. In broad strokes, Addis holds that, while there is a distinct realm of mental properties, behaviors admit of purely physical explanations.