eBook details
- Title: Contemporary Dualism
- Author : Andrea Lavazza & Howard Robinson
- Release Date : January 03, 2014
- Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1690 KB
Description
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.