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Titolo: | Psycho-physical dualism today [[electronic resource] ] : an interdisciplinary approach / / edited by Alessandro Antonietti, Antonella Corradini, and Jonathan Lowe |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina: | 147/.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Mind and body |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | AntoniettiAlessandro <1960-> CorradiniAntonella LoweE. J (E. Jonathan) |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Psycho-physical dualism today |
ISBN: | 1-282-49354-X |
9786612493546 | |
0-7391-3100-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453367703321 |
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