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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"mind/body dualism"”.
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SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM
<p>This thesis investigates the multiple readings that arise when the division between the biological and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg’s …
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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism
… moral psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind. Contrary to proposals that seek a harmonious integration of "religion and science" this dissertation argues that contemporary bio-psychological sciences give one ample reason to be skeptical of many of the metaphysical and metaethical claims …
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The Knowledge Argument and Howard Robinson’s 2016 case for Dualism and Mental Substance
… Related arguments are then considered for Mind Body Dualism from Howard Robinson (2016), covering topics of scientific reduction and supervenience. I object to Robinson’s arguments for the mind dependence of various entities.
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"Traitorous Bodies": Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E.L. James
… scholarship. Applying René Descartes’s theory of mind/body dualism to the heroines in Susan Johnson’s Seized by Love and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey reveals not only a separation between the heroines’ minds and bodies, but proves that both heroines are depicted as distinctly body. As such, …
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Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
… each conceives himself according to Descartes' mind-body dualism as primarily a thinking thing. I argue that this self-conception is reinforced by their paradoxical presence-as-absence as figures in a fiction.
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On the concept of a heedful frame of mind in the work of Gilbert Ryle : the problems of its episodic nature and its relation to the issue of voluntariness
… in that, as a reference to an episodic 'frame of mind', it threatens to entail the illicit features of inaccessibility to observation, implicit dualism, and infinite regress, which his general refutation of Cartesian mind-body dualism in The Concept of Mind was intended to eliminate. By …
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The Brain Scan as Ideograph
… images of the brain without cutting into the body. These images are colloquially called “brain scans.” Through journalism and mass dissemination online, brain scans have become an example of Michael Calvin McGee’s “ideograph,” a language term that subtly takes on outsized political and …
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The conscious mind unified.
… In turn, this provides a defense of substance dualism or at least something near enough. Given the widespread rejection of mind-body dualism, I answer certain neurological objections and conclude by sketching the details of an underexplored neo-Aristotelian form of substance dualism. I conclude …
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An Intersectional Analysis of Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… identities and oppressions as well as about mind/body dualism. Larsen exhibits prophetic understanding of intersectional concepts related to black women's complicated positions and identities. Ultimately, using this framework will give a more complete reading of Quicksand and resist …
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Psychological characteristics related to epileptic and non-epileptic seizures
… The critical appraisal reflects on the impact of mind-body dualism in the other two papers and discusses how such considerations may influence clinical practice.
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NAVIGATING GENDERED SPACE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LABOUR MARKETS IN PAKISTAN
… how different forces of discrimination including mind-body dualism manifested as public-private space interact and intersect to impact women’s navigation of spaces. I examine mobility as a pursued rather than assured “good” - an enabling factor that allows those that have mobility, economic and …
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A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Analysis of Experimental Infant Research
… phenomenological notions that seek to transcend dualism: phenomenal world, lived-body, and intersubjectivity.</p><p> The first part of investigation demonstrated that subject-object dualism has had a major impact on contemporary conceptions of infants' object/physical knowledge. In turn, it was …
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Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places
… I argue that there exists a dichotomy between mind and body and that the mind (rationality and masculinity) is privileged over the body (irrationality and femininity). This dichotomy underpins human geographical knowledge as it is currently constituted. I examine examples from time-geography, …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… lack thereof, of the predominantly male ""dead"" body alongside animate, female characters' performance of mourning makes visible the ways in which these performance texts place women in a bind between asserting themselves as particularized, intending subjects in their own right and characters’ …