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Biological naturalism and the mind-body problem / Jane Anderson.

Anderson, Jane, author.
2022
B105.M53
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Title
Biological naturalism and the mind-body problem / Jane Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Jane, author.
ISBN
9783030996840 (electronic bk.)
3030996840 (electronic bk.)
9783030996833
3030996832
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99684-0
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-99684-0 doi
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B105.M53
Dewey Decimal Classification
128/.2
Summary
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. An essential read for anyone who believes that no satisfactory solution to "the mind-body problem" has yet been discovered.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Explanatory Gap
Chapter 3. The Hard and The Easy Problems Of Consciousness
Chapter 4. (Un)consciousness and (Ir)rationality In Psychology
Chapter 5. The Brain and The Mind-Body-Self
Chapter 6. 21st Century Biological Naturalism: The Body-Map-Based View and the Affect-Centric View.

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