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Excerpt from The Problem of Mind and Body In the account of his visit to Thomas Carlyle at Craigenputtock, Emerson tells us how they went out to walk over the hills and sat to talk of the immortality of the soul. "It was not Carlyle's fault," says the American seer, "that we talked on tins topic, for he has the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls and did not like to place himself where no step can be taken." The reading of the volume before us has called up again that incident and these words. For there is to some temperaments a similar shrinking from the discussion of the problem of Body and Mind which has, from the time of Descartes at least, been the pons asinorum of Philosophy. One might well be pardoned for a hesitancy in entering upon the serious consideration of a problem for the solution or attempted solution of which nothing less than a whole metaphysic, a reasoned view of the whole structure of reality, is finally demanded. To other temperaments however this is the excitement, this the challenge. Such do not petulantly complain of the variety of offered answers to this fundamental question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Mind and Body, or Mental States and Physical Conditions Mind and Body - Mental States and Physi cal Conditions! To the mind of those who have contented themselves with merely the superficial aspects of things, these two things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
Excerpt from Status of the Mind Problem In predicating the dependence of mind and body, one of the first pre cautions to be taken is that against predicating their identity. That every mental fact corresponds to a physiological fact as its antecedent, or at least its necessary concomitant, is now a generally accepted truth. There is not a psychologist nor a physiologist who holds that the men tal fact and the physiological fact are one and the same thing. The question as to the exact nature of the connection between these two facts may be regarded as the leading problem of psychology to-day. It is therefore fitting that I should offer a few thoughts on this problem. We are constantly hearing about the mystery of mind, and when we inquire closely what this means we usually find that it is just this question of the real relation of mind to body. All admit that there is no resemblance between mind and body, and it is the over whelming consensus of opinion that the connection between them is utterly inexplicable. I shall not refer to those authors who look upon the body as something essentially base, and despise matter. I shall confine myself to an exposition of the views of men who have devoted their lives to the study of matter, either in the inorganic world or as organized in the bodies of living organisms, and who have taught us the dignity and purity, I had almost said, the divinity, of the material world. Said Prof. Tyndall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Mind and Body: The Theories of Their Relation Many persons, mocking, ask - What has Mind to do with brain substance, white and grey? Can any facts or laws regarding the spirit of man be gained through a scrutiny of nerve fibres and nerve cells? The question, whatever may be insinuated in putting it, is highly relevant, arid raises great issues. The conceivable answers are various: - First. Granting mind and body to be in our present life inseparable, yet the two might be supposed to have their modes of existence altogether distinct, the one being wholly unaffected by the other. Consequently, each would have to be studied in its own way, and for its own sake alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Matter and Spirit: A Study of Mind and Body in Their Relation, to the Spiritual Life The principal excuse for a new book on the eternal problem of matter and mind is just the fact that the problem is eternal. And not only is it eternal it is so complex that there is no end of illuminating ways in which it may be presented. A further ex cuse, if it be needed, is to be found in the many new attitudes toward the question which contemporary thought has suggested. A fairly rapid survey of the various answers, old and new, which have been given to our question - a bird's eye View, so to speak, of this ancient problem in its modern setting - seems to be called for by the times in which we live. The need for such a review becomes more patent the mo ment one stops to consider the absolutely central place of the mind-body problem in metaphysical speculation, and the fundamental nature of meta physics in knowledge and in life. If we knew just how mind affects body and how body affects mind we should have the dew to many a philosophical riddle, and a clew that would give us much-needed guidance not only in philosophy but in many a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Control of Body and Mind In four respects we have attempted in this series to do what, so far as we know, has not been attempted before. 1. We have endeavored to present to children a series of texts in which the central theme shall be hygiene. The current school text-books treat of physiology and anatomy primarily. The reason we have placed this special emphasis on hygiene is that we believe the first purpose of such study in the elementary schools should be to influence children definitely towards more intelligent and better habits of living. We also believe that the study of physiology and anatomy as such is of little use or even intelligibility until the high-school or even the college age. 2. It is the purpose of the series to treat each subject in a purely scientific, as distinguished from a philosophical manner; for instance, as far as possible genuine experiments by the child are urged, and the results of such tests are given. The child's own action, experience, and observation are constantly drawn upon, so much so that the blunt facts of actual experience, rather than those of any philosophical argument, constitute the plea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.