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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... environment on the other are so many and so striking that the materiality of the mind has seemed to most people an obvious impossibility . Men can see and hear , ponder and resolve , suffer and en- joy . They have a language and a ...
... environment ( perception ) , and in liv- ing out our lives in that environment ( action ) . The links of senses to brain , and brain to muscles show every sign of being physicochemical relations . So if spirit acts on matter in men , it ...
... environments and differen- tial reaction to these environments do not suffice to account for the world's seeming thus and so . Materialists sometimes argue at this point that the difference between an experiencing man and a non ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
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