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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... scientific theory . In taking the widest possible perspective , in scrutinizing all the scientific and common - sense mate- rial , the philosopher discharges a necessary task which cannot proceed by direct experimental research ...
... scientific re- search . The importance of this speculative extension of physiology for the Mind - Body problem is plain , for it is incompatible with matter - spirit interaction . How differ- ent our view of man would be if brain ...
... scientific : How does the siren work ? In Behaviorist doctrine , the philosophical Mind - Body problem gives way to the scientific problem : How does the body work in producing those behavioral manifestations which we describe in mental ...
Contents
HOW THE MINDBODY PROBLEM ARISES | 14 |
DUALISMS | 41 |
THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION | 59 |
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