Contemporary Dualism
Download or Read eBook Contemporary Dualism PDF written by Andrea Lavazza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Andrea Lavazza |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2014-02-03 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781136682407 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1136682406 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Contemporary Dualism by : Andrea Lavazza
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.
