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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... particular place . 3 The minimum spatiality that this requires is location ; dimension need not come into it . The great modern neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles , who is a Dualist , accords " spatial patterning " to the mind . This ...
... particular event triggered another particular event as effect . But be that as it may , our regular employment of many other mental concepts is certainly causal . " It was the pain that caused him to cry out , " " It was the flashes ...
... particular forms of be- havior . And provided that neurophysiology is in prin- ciple complete , the only properties of the brain relevant to their role in causing behavior will be physicochemi- cal ones . But these brain states have a ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
Copyright | |
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