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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... nature of the mind must show how to rebut the category and mental - object arguments , for otherwise they refute his position . Empirical Grounds Scientific investigation points to the materiality of the body . We must now ask whether ...
... nature of the mind falling between them . The Behaviorism which identifies the mind with behavior patterns displayed by human organisms has been very influential in psychol- ogy , and Behaviorism is indeed a doctrine of the mind's nature ...
... nature . The second response is known as panpsychism , the doc- trine that mind is to be found throughout nature . The scientific difficulty for any form of dualism is therefore this ; the continuity of nature leads a dualist inexorably ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
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