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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... involved in the activities of think- ing , acting , feeling , and character which distinguish you as a being with a mind on the other . As already noticed , to solve this problem we must at the same time advance fuller accounts of the ...
Keith Campbell. The Individuation of Spirits Non - spatial spirits are involved in another , deeper , conundrum . Minds ... involved . Atoms , and material things generally , are individuated and counted by their positions . Non - spatial ...
... involved in dif- ferent emotions . Let us accept the existence of these additional , non- causal features of mental states , and let us call them phenomenal properties . What follows for Central - State Materialism from the existence of ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
Copyright | |
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