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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... nervous system are discovered , in developing science , to be a cause of that very same behavior , an argument from how mental terms get their meaning stands in the way of applying the mental term " anger " to the appropriate causes of ...
... nervous system performs can differ from mine . You and I may well have developed in such a way that we use slightly different areas of the brain , linked up through slightly different pathways , in remembering that Columbus crossed the ...
... nervous system there is a mind . We are then faced with two choices . We can hold that all matter , however organized , has properties other than physicochemical ones , but that only in nervous organization do they show themselves or ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
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