Mind and Motion and Monism - Couverture souple

Romanes, George John

9781444456271: Mind and Motion and Monism

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ISBN 10 : 144445627X ISBN 13 : 9781444456271

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

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In Mind and Motion and Monism, George John Romanes, a pioneering evolutionary biologist and philosopher, confronts one of the deepest questions of modern thought: how are mind and matter related? Bringing scientific discipline to metaphysical debate, Romanes examines whether consciousness can be explained by motion, mechanism, physiology, and nervous action, or whether materialism leaves something essential untouched. The work moves from the relation between mental states and physical processes into a larger argument for monism, a view seeking to overcome the old opposition between spiritualism and materialism. Romanes weighs rival theories with unusual care, asking what science can legitimately claim, where philosophy must intervene, and how the will, the self, and the world may be understood as parts of one underlying reality. Clear, earnest, and intellectually adventurous, this book captures a late Victorian mind wrestling with Darwinian science, psychology, religion, and speculative philosophy at a moment when old certainties were being remade. For readers interested in consciousness, mind-body theory, evolution, and the philosophical foundations of science, Romanes offers a thoughtful bridge between empirical inquiry and the enduring mystery of human awareness itself, and invites reflection on reality beyond easy divisions of matter, spirit, knowledge, life, nature, cause, being, and experience.

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