Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth: An Inquiry Into Consciousness, Epistemology, and MetaphysicsThe question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in Descartes' Error and Looking for Spinoza from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theory--physical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Gluck's work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate. |
Contents
Chapter One The Limits of Physical Monism | 1 |
Chapter Three Consciousness and Creative Causality | 45 |
Chapter Four Spiritual Matter and Neutral Monism | 63 |
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