Body and MindWidely used in philosophy courses, this succinct study explores the problem of determining the relation between the body and mind. In that philosophy seeks to elucidate man's place and action in nature, Campbell asserts that our assessment of the body-mind problem affects our perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the natural sciences. After discussing how the body-mind problem developed, Campbell sets forth four incompatible propositions that serve as the framework for evaluating different philosophical approaches to the problem. Among competing perspectives, he examines dualism, behaviorist theories, the causal theory of mind, and central-state epiphenomenalism. This second edition includes a chapter on functionalism and an expanded bibliography. |
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Keith Campbell. body and mind are help determine answers to the Mind- Body problem , and the troubles involved in some an- swers to the Mind - Body problem can in turn discredit some opinions about body and mind . Because the questions ...
... Body problem a little more fully . The Mind - Body problem is the problem of what relations hold between the brain and the bag of bones which is your body on the one hand and whatever is involved in the activities of think- ing , acting ...
... body interact . ( 4 ) Spirit and matter do not interact . As was pointed out in Chapter 1 , the Mind - Body problem carries with it the problems of what a mind and a body are : propositions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are a most succinct way of ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
Copyright | |
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