The Immaterial Self: Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind (International Library of Philosophy) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Immaterial Self: Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind (International Library of Philosophy) Book

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 Immaterial Self examines 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 `lternative 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 positive accounts of the attachment of the self to the body, its power of free agency, and its role in personal identity.Read More

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  • 0415156335
  • 9780415156332
  • John Foster
  • 14 November 1996
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 308
  • 1
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