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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... less interesting objects in the world - plants , rocks , and masses of gas , for example . These other things have no mind . Men are different ; " mind " names the differ- ence . But we must be more specific than that . For many ...
... less impervious to scientific investigation . The Correlation of Minds and Bodies A fact about normal people , so familiar we scarcely notice it , is that each body has associated with it one , and only one , mind . And with each ...
... less urgent sensations to make the point . A slight glow of well - being may have no behavioral mani- festations at all , yet still exist and be felt . Alternatively , and this is equally fatal , its manifestations may be quite ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
Copyright | |
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