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History of the mind-body problem

Author: Tim Crane; Sarah Patterson
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series: London studies in the history of philosophy, v. 3.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume is a collection of essays on the various concerns that have given rise to the mind-body problem in philosophy. It examines contemporary debates on the subject and puts these views in a historical context.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tim Crane; Sarah Patterson
ISBN: 0415242363 9780415242363
OCLC Number: 44493220
Description: viii, 255 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The musical, the magical, and the mathematical soul / Rae Langton --
The soul's relation to the body: Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant and the Parisian debate on monopsychism / M.W.F. Stone --
How Cartesian was Descartes? / Sarah Patterson --
The emergence of the Cartesian mind / Susan James --
Intentionality or phenomenology? Descartes and the objects of thought / John Cottingham --
'A tumbling-ground for whimsies'? The history and contemporary role of the conscious/unconscious contrast / Neil Campbell Manson --
The origins of qualia / Tim Crane --
Beyond dispute: sense-data, intentionality and the mind-body problem / M.G.F. Martin.
Series Title: London studies in the history of philosophy, v. 3.
Responsibility: edited by Tim Crane and Sarah Patterson.
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This volume is a collection of essays on the various concerns that have given rise to the mind-body problem in philosophy. It examines contemporary debates on the subject and puts these views in a historical context.

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