Why the Mind-Body Problem Cannot Be Solved: Some Final Conclusions in the Philosophy of Mind - Couverture souple

Krakow, Irving

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761822089 ISBN 13 : 9780761822080

Editeur : University Press of America, 2002

Synopsis

In Why the Mind-Body Problem CANNOT Be Solved, Irving Krakow shows that a satisfactory scientific explanation of conscious experience isn't possible for methodological and semantic reasons. The reason is that sentences about conscious experience cannot be deduced from sentences about the brain's neurology without using brain-mind correlations. Using the fact of brain-mind correlation in appropriate ways, along with conceptual analysis, Krakow shows why identity theory is wrong; why Churchland's reductionism is wrong; why the concept of mental causation is incoherent; why parallelism is empirically true; why functionalism is incoherent; why McGinn's "Property P" of the brain is misconceived; and why Libet's view of free-will is mistaken. The net result of Krakow's examination is, that a good deal of thinking about these fundamental issues needs to be reworked.

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À propos de l'auteur

Irving Krakow is retired. He was Associate Professor of Philosophy, Camden County College, Blackwood, New Jersey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761822089
• ISBN 13: 9780761822080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
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• Personne responsable: non disponible