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ISBN:
9780511598005
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in philosophy
Content:
In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and their bodies, E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He defends a substantival theory of the self as an enduring and irreducible entity - a theory which is unashamedly committed to a distinctly non-Cartesian dualism of self and body. Taking up the physicalist challenge to any robust form of psychophysical interactionism, he shows how an attribution of independent causal powers to the mental states of human subjects is perfectly consistent with a thoroughly naturalistic world view. He concludes his study by examining in detail the role which conscious mental states play in the human subject's exercise of its most central capacities for perception, action, thought and self-knowledge
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. Substance and selfhood -- 3. Mental causation -- 4. Perception -- 5. Action -- 6. Language, thought and imagination -- 7. Self-knowledge
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521475037
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521031554
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521475037
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511598005
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