A Positive Approach to Psycho-physical Dualism
Author : Ellen Rose Deitsch
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Ellen Rose Deitsch
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Alessandro Antonietti
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739131001
Until quite recently, mind-body dualism has been regarded with deep suspicion by both philosophers and scientists. This has largely been due to the widespread identification of dualism in general with one particular version of it: the interactionist substance dualism of RZnZ Descartes. This traditional form of dualism has, ever since its first formulation in the seventeenth century, attracted numerous philosophical objections and is now almost universally rejected in scientific circles as empirically inadequate. During the last few years, however, renewed attention has begun to be paid to the dualistic point of view, as a result of increasing discontent with the prevailing materialism and reductionism of contemporary scientific and philosophical thought. Awareness has grown that dualism need not be restricted to its traditional form and that other varieties of dualism are not subject to the difficulties commonly raised against Descartes' own version of it. Interest in these alternative versions of dualism is growing fast today, because it seems that they are capable of capturing deep-seated philosophical intuitions, while also being fully consistent with the methodological assumptions and empirical findings of modern scientific work on the human mind and brain. The object of this book is to provide philosophers, scientists, their students, and the wider general public with an up-to-date overview of current developments in dualistic conceptions of the mind in contemporary philosophy and science.
Author : Andrea Lavazza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136682406
Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological materialism cannot be sustained. The contributions are intended to show that, at the very least, ontological dualism (as contrasted with a dualism that is merely linguistic or epistemic) constitutes a philosophically respectable alternative to the monistic views that currently dominate thought about the mind-body (or, perhaps more appropriately, person-body) relation.
Author : Uwe Meixner
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dualism
ISBN : 9783897853768
Author : John Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134731051
Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self. John Foster's new book exposes the inadequacies of the dominant materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind. In doing so he is in radical conflict with the current philosophical establishment. Ambitious and controversial, The Immaterial Self is the most powerful and effective defence of Cartesian dualism since Descartes' own
Author : Eric P. Polten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 311081563X
No detailed description available for "Critique of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory".
Author : Philip Goff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190677015
The first half of this book argues that physicalism cannot account for consciousness, and hence cannot be true. The second half explores and defends Russellian monism, a radical alternative to both physicalism and dualism. The view that emerges combines panpsychism with the view that the universe as a whole is fundamental.
Author : Alpana Chakraborty
Publisher : D.K. Print World Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1996-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
The Study Reviews The Philosophical Thinking That Has, Since Descartes Time, Been Invested In The Shaping Of This Dualistic Tradition. It Compares The Cartesian View Of Mind-Body Dualism With The Dualism Of Traditional Samkhya Philosophy.
Author : Daniel Stoljar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135149224
Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most important yet divisive problems in philosophy. In this superb introduction to the problem Daniel Stoljar focuses on three fundamental questions: the interpretation, truth and philosophical significance of physicalism.
Author : Simone Gozzano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107000149
This book argues that many mental states, including such conscious states as perceptual experiences and bodily sensations, are identical with brain states.