Contemporary Dualism
Author | : Andrea Lavazza |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136682407 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136682406 |
Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological materialism cannot be sustained. The contributions are intended to show that, at the very least, ontological dualism (as contrasted with a dualism that is merely linguistic or epistemic) constitutes a philosophically respectable alternative to the monistic views that currently dominate thought about the mind-body (or, perhaps more appropriately, person-body) relation.