In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and
their bodies, E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of
physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a
basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account
of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He
defends a substantival theory of the self as an enduring and
irreducible entity - a theory which is unashamably committed to a
distinctly non-Cartesian dualism of self and body. Taking up the
physicalist challenge to any robust form of psychophysical
interactionism, he shows how an attribution of independent causal
powers to the mental states of human subjects is perfectly
consistent with a thoroughly naturalistic world view. He concludes
his study by examining in detail the role which conscious mental
states play in the human subject's exercise of its most central
capacities for perception, action, thought and self-knowledge.
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