Mental Causation: The Mind-Body Problem
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Main Author: Dardis, Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2008
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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& mdash;how can our thoughts, emotions, our values& mdash;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, Arist
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (213 p)
ISBN:9780231513517

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