The Immaterial Self: A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind (International Library of Philosophy) - Hardcover

Foster, John

 
9780415029896: The Immaterial Self: A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind (International Library of Philosophy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415029899 ISBN 13: 9780415029896
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self.

John Foster's new book exposes the inadequacies of the dominant materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind. In doing so he is in radical conflict with the current philosophical establishment. Ambitious and controversial, The Immaterial Self is the most powerful and effective defence of Cartesian dualism since Descartes' own

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Foster, John

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415029899
ISBN 13 
9780415029896
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
312

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