The Body/Mind Conceptual Framework: Some Theories in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neurology - Softcover

Shalom, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0391035762 ISBN 13: 9780391035768

Publisher: Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S., 1988

Synopsis

This text studies personal identity. It continues a quest intensified in recent decades as scholars, clinicians, and researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines were repeatedly confronted by the mind/body problem and the issue of personal identity. Shalom offers analysis of such thinkers as Freud, Wittgenstein, and Feigi; Smart, Armstrong, Strawson, Parfit, Wiener, Sayre, Nagel, Jaynes, and Sperry are also discussed. The author concludes that the body/mind concept cannot explain the makeup of a person. Only the concept of personal identity, ie the irreducibility of the concrete existing individual person can adequately encompass who and what we are. Shalom's conclusions touch themes such as consciousness, being, self-awareness, body, existence, brain, cybernetics, subjectivity, identity theory, mind, personal psychoanalysis, God and immortality. This book is aimed at philosophers, psychological and medical researchers and theologians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0391035762
• ISBN 13: 9780391035768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536