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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... defining characteristic for spirit must be made with some care . To preserve the contrast with matter , we will do ... definition , there is no spirit . A man would have to be given a new spirit , and so be a different man , every time ...
... definition in terms of absolutely Free Will or survival of bodily death , which maintain the distinction of mat- ter from spirit , but rest upon quite dubious human capacities . We might therefore try to define a spiritual thing as ...
... definition of spirit in terms of intentionality will lead to the con- clusion that some facets of the mind are spiritual , while others are not . This may well be the correct view , but it is not good to divide the mind in this way ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
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