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

Name: Immaterial Self A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind
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ISBN: 9780415156332

ISBN-10: 0415156335

ISBN-13: 9780415156332

Edition: 1992

Authors: John Foster

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Dualism is a doctrine engaged on two fronts. It affirms a thesis about the mind, in opposition to various forms of materialism and mental reductionism, and a thesis about the physical world, in opposition to various forms of mentalism and idealism.The ImmaterialSelfexamines a dualist account of the mind, a defence of the Cartesian account in which the immaterial contents of the mind are assigned to an immaterial mental subject. Foster vigorously attacks alternative accounts of the mind--both those, like functionalism and the identity theories, which are opposed to dualism as such, and those which accept dualism in a Humean (non-Cartesian) form. In its final sections, the book develops…

Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/10/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English