Neither Brain Nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-brain Identity Theory
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- Publisher : MIT Press
- Published : 2007
- Category :
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies - Catalogue No : 25585
- ISBN 13 : 9780262681674
- ISBN 10 : 0262681676
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In this highly original work, Teed Rockwell rejects both dualism and the mind-brain identity theory. He proposes instead that mental phenomena emerge not merely from brain activity but from an interacting nexus of brain, body, and world. The mind can be seen not as an organ within the body, but as a "behavioral field" that fluctuates within this brain-body-world nexus. If we reject the dominant form of the mind-brain identity theory and accept this new alternative, then many philosophical and scientific problems can be solved. Other philosophers have flirted with these ideas, including Dewey, Heidegger, Putnam, Millikan, and Dennett. But Rockwell goes further than these tentative speculations and offers a detailed alternative to the dominant philosophical view, applying pragmatist insights to contemporary scientific and philosophical problems.
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