Why the Mind Has a Body (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Strong, Lord Charles Augustus Charles Sutherland

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330476395 ISBN 13 : 9781330476390

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the big question of mind and body and discover how three major theories shape science, thought, and everyday life. This book surveys interactionism, automatism, and parallelism, asking what really ties consciousness to the brain and why it matters for physics, biology, and philosophy.

In clear, probing terms, it analyzes how each view handles causation, the role of consciousness, and the search for a satisfying ultimate theory. It also discusses how our understanding of perception, reality, and meaning changes when we examine mind and matter together rather than apart.

• Learn how three competing theories explain or deny mind–body causation.


• See how these ideas touch physics, biology, and the study of perception.


• Explore the debate between naive realism, idealism, and monistic approaches.


• Consider proposed reconciliations that aim to preserve both efficiency of mind and scientific causality.

Ideal for readers curious about the foundations of mind, brain, and experience, especially those interested in philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Why the Mind Has a Body

The reader will find in this book (1) a sketch of an explanation of the connection of mind and body; (2) a proposal, based thereon, for a settlement of the controversy between the parallelists and the inter-actionists.

(1) The explanation of the connection of mind and body is not in substance new. It is that which is implied in the pangsychism of Fechner and Clifford. Brief expositions of it have been given by Paulsen in his Einldtung in die Philosophic-indeed, to Paulsen I owe ray first acquaintance with it - and, more recently, by Stout in the chapter "Body and Mind" of his Manual. What specially characterizes my treatment of the matter is the detailed working-out of the conception in terms of the hypothesis of mental causality. I have also set forth somewhat elaborately the scientific and metaphysical premises on which it rests.

Perhaps owing to the brevity with which it has been presented, this explanation has thus far attracted little attention. Most philosophical writers seem not to have grasped it. They are accustomed to treat the connection of mind and body as inexplicable.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330476395
• ISBN 13: 9781330476390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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