@article {Hooker:March 1998:0268-1064:98, author = "Hooker, C.A.", author = "Christensen, W.D.", title = "Towards a New Science of the Mind: Wide Content and the Metaphysics of Organizational Properties in Non-Linear Dynamical Models", journal = "Mind & Language", volume = "13", year = "March 1998", abstract = "Tim van Gelder, following Brandom, Collins and others, uses the so-called wide content of capacities which support social, norm governed activities, such as language, to argue for their anti-natural, abstract, but socially instituted nature and thence for the failure of the entire traditional mind-body discussion as ill-posed. We argue that his former conclusion is wrong, that such properties are naturalisable, complicated organisational properties of the complexly organised, non-linearly interactive systems that human beings are. This analysis also provides principled support, but on other grounds, for van Gelder's latter conclusion. We outline a new naturalist approach to the organisational capacities of such systems that is intended to ground their biological, cognitive and social characters.", pages = "98-109(12)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/mila/1998/00000013/00000001/art00008" doi = "doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00067" }