Body and Mind: Second Edition

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University of Notre Dame Pess, Jan 31, 1992 - Philosophy - 136 pages

Widely used in philosophy courses, this succinct study explores the problem of determining the relation between the body and mind. In that philosophy seeks to elucidate man’s place and action in nature, Campbell asserts that our assessment of the body-mind problem affects our perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the natural sciences.

After discussing how the body-mind problem developed, Campbell sets forth four incompatible propositions that serve as the framework for evaluating different philosophical approaches to the problem. Among competing perspectives, he examines dualism, behaviorist theories, the causal theory of mind, and central-state epiphenomenalism. This second edition includes a chapter on functionalism and an expanded bibliography.

 

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CENTRALSTATE MATERIALISM
FUNCTIONALISM
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About the author (1992)

Keith Campbell is emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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