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| Reason, cause: this is about the possibility or impossibility of equating reasons (for human actions or animal activities) with physical causes. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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D. Dennett on Reason/Cause - Dictionary of Arguments
II 66 Reason/Cause/Knowledge/Evolution/Dennett: The early doubling macromolecules did have causes, but they had no idea about their reasons. II 77 Cause/existence/ontology/Dennett: There were causes and reasons for millions of years, but no one existed to formulate them, represent the reasons or even to appreciate them in the strict sense. Brandom I 379 Reason/Davidson/Brandom: reasons are causes - (elsewhere): Davidson always defines causality as an explanation - we only need causality. Den I 627 Reason/Darwin/causality/Dennett: Question: Can there be reasons which are recognized without a conscious mind recognizing them?. I 628 Yes! Selection is the "blind watchmaker" (Dawkins), who nevertheless finds forced moves. - Connection: with truths/Goedel which you can see but cannot prove. Dennett: intermediate solutions are good! E.g. the halting problem: a program that would not perfect but still good. >Causation, >Causality, >Causes, >Progress, >Decidability._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Dennett I D. Dennett Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, New York 1995 German Edition: Darwins gefährliches Erbe Hamburg 1997 Dennett II D. Dennett Kinds of Minds, New York 1996 German Edition: Spielarten des Geistes Gütersloh 1999 Dennett III Daniel Dennett "COG: Steps towards consciousness in robots" In Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996 Dennett IV Daniel Dennett "Animal Consciousness. What Matters and Why?", in: D. C. Dennett, Brainchildren. Essays on Designing Minds, Cambridge/MA 1998, pp. 337-350 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 Bra I R. Brandom Making it exlicit. Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment, Cambridge/MA 1994 German Edition: Expressive Vernunft Frankfurt 2000 Bra II R. Brandom Articulating reasons. An Introduction to Inferentialism, Cambridge/MA 2001 German Edition: Begründen und Begreifen Frankfurt 2001 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18