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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823997903321

Autore

Foster John

Titolo

The Immaterial Self : A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002

ISBN

0-203-00408-6

1-280-18224-5

0-203-27624-8

1-134-73104-3

1-134-73105-1

9786610182244

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

International Library of Philosophy

Disciplina

128/.2

147.4

Soggetti

Descartes, ReneĢ

Dualism

Mind and body

Philosophy of mind

Speculative Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; THE DUALIST DOCTRINE; NIHILISM AND ANALYTICAL BEHAVIOURISM; ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONALISM; THE TYPE-IDENTITY THESIS; TOKEN-IDENTITY AND METAPHYSICAL REDUCTIONISM; TOKEN-IDENTITY AND PSYCHOPHYSICAL CAUSATION; THE MENTAL SUBJECT; PERSONAL IDENTITY, EMBODIMENT, AND FREEDOM; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines



and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self.John Foster's new book exposes the inadequacies of the dominant materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind. In doing so he is in radical conflict with the current phil