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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... reference to it . And if the computer is calculating the integral square root of 493 , it is directed upon a non - existent object . Yet the computer is a material thing . So even if our definition of spirit does refer to intentionality ...
... reference to behavioral dis- positions . Excitement and fear are two different mental states . Yet by all subjective tests of introspection and memory , a case of excitement and a case of fear may not differ at all . What makes one ...
... reference to how such rock or such iron comes to be produced . The Causal Theory of mind likens most mental descriptions to " poisonous " , but appeals occasionally to the other pattern shown by " sedimentary rock " .1 A decision to go ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
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