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Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem
Anthony Dardis
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Description for Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world? This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley. He then ... Read more
Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world? This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley. He then ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231144162
SKU
V9780231144162
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About Anthony Dardis
Anthony Dardis is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Georgia, and his work has been published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, Acta Analytica, Dialogue, and Consciousness and Cognition.
Reviews for Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem
The book... contains an original approach to defusing the problim of mental causation that is worth conderation by philosophers of mind.
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