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Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem

Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem

Anderson, Jane

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PhilosophyMedical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3030996867
ISBN13: 9783030996864
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 25 2023
Pages: 295
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand the mind-body problem. The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as what it is like to be a certain living creature. David Chalmers refers to the problem of what-it-is-like as the hard problem of consciousness and claims that this problem is so hard that investigators have either just ignored the issue completely, investigated a similar (but distinct) problem, or claimed that there is literally nothing to investigate - that phenomenal experience is illusory. This book contends that phenomenal experience is both very real and very important. Two specific biological naturalist views are considered in depth. One of these two views, in particular, seems to be free from problems; adopting something along the lines of this view might finally allow us to make sense of the mind-body problem.

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