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Record Nr.

UNINA9910580165103321

Autore

Anderson Jane

Titolo

Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem / / by Jane Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030996840

9783030996833

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 pages)

Disciplina

128.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Psychoanalysis

Cognitive neuroscience

Philosophy of Mind

Cognitive Neuroscience

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Explanatory Gap -- Chapter 3. The Hard and The Easy Problems Of Consciousness -- Chapter 4. (Un)consciousness and (Ir)rationality In Psychology -- Chapter 5. The Brain and The Mind-Body-Self -- Chapter 6. 21st Century Biological Naturalism: The Body-Map-Based View and the Affect-Centric View.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand “the mind-body problem”. The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as “what it is like” to be a certain living creature. David Chalmers refers to the problem of “what-it-is-like” as “the hard problem” of consciousness and claims that this problem is so “hard” that investigators have either just ignored the issue completely, investigated a similar (but distinct) problem, or claimed that there is literally nothing to investigate – that phenomenal experience is illusory. This book contends that phenomenal experience is both very real and very important. Two specific “biological naturalist” views are considered in depth. One of these two views, in particular, seems to be free from problems; adopting something along the lines of this view might finally



allow us to make sense of the mind-body problem. An essential read for anyone who believes that no satisfactory solution to “the mind-body problem” has yet been discovered.