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The Mind-Body Problem (Paperback)
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The Mind-Body Problem (Paperback)
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
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An introduction to the mind-body problem, covering all the proposed
solutions and offering a powerful new one. Philosophers from
Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of
modern and contemporary philosophy: the mind-body problem. The
brain is physical. If the mind is physical, we cannot see how. If
we cannot see how the mind is physical, we cannot see how it can
interact with the body. And if the mind is not physical, it cannot
interact with the body. Or so it seems. In this book the
philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in
detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have
been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp
focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the
self, or consciousness, or the soul, or anything other than the
mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions.
Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning
with Descartes. He describes mind-body dualism, which claims that
the mind and the body are two different and separate things,
nonphysical and physical, and he also examines physicalist theories
of mind; antimaterialism, which proposes limits to physicalism and
introduces the idea of qualia; and scientific theories of
consciousness. Finally, Westphal examines the largely forgotten
neutral monist theories of mind and body, held by Ernst Mach,
William James, and Bertrand Russell, which attempt neither to
extract mind from matter nor to dissolve matter into mind. Westphal
proposes his own version of neutral monism. This version is unique
among neutral monist theories in offering an account of mind-body
interaction.
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