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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"mind-body problem"”.
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Current issues in the mind/body problem
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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The significance of intuitions of contingency for the mind-body problem
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
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Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem: Why the Twenty-First Century Still Needs Mental Substances
… Wolff distinguishes three responses to the mind-body problem. Materialism says that everything is ultimately material. Idealism says that everything is ultimately mental. Substance dualism says that there are both material and mental things and that these are different substances. Through …
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Mulla Sadra and the mind-body problem: A critical assessment of Sadra’s approach to the dichotomy of soul and spirit
… in this research. This ambiguity has created problems in different fields of study such as philosophy, psychology and commentaries of religious texts. This is because the two words are usually used synonymously. The main aim of this research is to investigate whether the human being has an …
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The realiser-realiser identity theory of mind
… I call the realiser-realiser identity theory of mind. I will argue that this view can solve the main issues surrounding the mind-body problem, namely, the problems posed by conceivability arguments, the problem of mental causation, the problem of multiple realisation of the mental and the …
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The realiser-realiser identity theory of mind
… I call the realiser-realiser identity theory of mind. I will argue that this view can solve the main issues surrounding the mind-body problem, namely, the problems posed by conceivability arguments, the problem of mental causation, the problem of multiple realisation of the mental and the …
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Metodologie psychofyzického problému v Bergsonově Hmotě a paměti
… of dualistic ontology. So, Bergson's solution to mind-body problem is not an attempt to explain it as an isolated phenomenon, it is rather ambitious project which puts perception into world where the order of perception and the order of mathematical science coexist. In this dissertation, I will …
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Methodology and Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind
In contemporary philosophy of mind, the mind-body problem is often framed in terms ofthe reduction of psychology to neuroscience. In this thesis I argue that whether or notone regards such a reduction as tenable depends upon a methodological decision aboutthe importance of our naïve intuitions …
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Re-Reading Mead: The Mind-Body Dilemma and Sociology
… as an attempt to overcome certain aspects of the mind, and the mind-body problem which have their origins in Cartesian interactionism. I do not claim that Mead was responding specifically to Descartes, but rather to certain problems first raised by Cartesianism which remained unresolved by …
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Neurophysiological Aspects of Time Perception
… on time and on psychophysical correlations (mind-body-problem).
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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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An examination of a Thirteenth-Century Treatise on the Mind/Body Dichotomy: Jean de La Rochelle on the Soul and its Powers
… medieval schoolmen. The question of the unity of body and soul was not 'the' question for a theologian of Jean's generation. The challenge facing our author was how to distinguish the intellective soul from the composite body in order to argue for the immortality of the soul. The new physiological …
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Artificial Identity: Representations of Robots and Cyborgs in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction Films
… primarily by philosophers concerned with the mind/body problem, rather than studied as a neuroscientific conundrum. However, contemporary developments in science and technology that afford us a greater knowledge of the human brain have resulted in an increased scientific focus on …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… almost from the moment Descartes posited the mind-body problem, there was an anxiety about what it meant to be “one who thinks.”1 This anxiety presents itself as a continuous questioning of the ontology of the subject, and ultimately, whether there is a subject at all. By the time …
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Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
… alone. I show how St. Thomas’s solution to the mind-body problem is relevant today, albeit in a world which measures success in terms o f power and wealth but yet longs for what today we might term a spiritual dimension to our lives. The underlying principle for St. Thomas is that the rational …