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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782105403321

Titolo

Psycho-physical dualism today [[electronic resource] ] : an interdisciplinary approach / / edited by Alessandro Antonietti, Antonella Corradini, and Jonathan Lowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2008

ISBN

1-282-49354-X

9786612493546

0-7391-3100-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AntoniettiAlessandro <1960->

CorradiniAntonella

LoweE. J (E. Jonathan)

Disciplina

147/.4

Soggetti

Mind and body

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Psycho-physical dualism : scientific approaches. Developing dualism : from intuitive understanding to transcendental ideas / Henry M. Wellman and Carl N. Johnson -- Must psychologists be dualists? / Alessandro Antonietti -- Mind, brain, and dualism in modern physics / Friedrich Beck -- Discrete degrees within and between nature and mind / Ian J. Thompson. Part II. Psycho-physical dualism : philosophical perspectives. Mutual dependencies of the mental and the physical / Franz von Kutschera -- The reductio of reductive and non-reductive materialism--and a new start / Uwe Meixner -- A defence of non-Cartesian substance dualism / E. Jonathan Lowe -- Emergent dualism / Antonella Corradini -- Concepts, dualism, and the human intellect / David S. Oderberg.

Sommario/riassunto

Philosophers and scientists have recently been showing renewed interest in dualistic conceptions of the human mind, owing to growing acknowledgment of the failings of materialism and reductionism in contemporary philosophical and scientific thought. This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of current developments in this exciting new area of interdisciplinary collaboration, and will be indispensable



reading for all researchers and students in this field.