The primary aim of this study is to dissolve the mind-body problem.
It shows how the 'problem' separates into two distinct sets of
issues, concerning ontology on the one hand, and explanation on the
other, and argues that explanation - whether or not human behaviour
can be explained in physical terms - is the more crucial. The
author contends that a functionalist methodology in psychology and
neurophysiology will prove adequate to explain human behaviour.
Defence of this thesis requires: an examination of the
mental/physical dichotomy, and its rejection in favour of a
distinction between psychological and physical terms; a description
and discussion of functionalism in psychology and neurophysiology,
showing how the notorious problem of the necessary intensionality
of psychological terms may be circumvented; an examination of the
role of computer simulation in psycho-physical research; and an
explanation of how the phenomena of sentience fit the functional
framework. The book concludes that the thesis presented is in all
essentials that of Aristotle; Aristotle had no 'mind-body problem',
and were it not for a subsequent over-obsession with Cartesian
scepticism, we need not have had one either.
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