Damasio′s Error and Descartes′ Truth – An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology - Softcover

Gluck, Andrew

 
9781589661271: Damasio′s Error and Descartes′ Truth – An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1589661273 ISBN 13: 9781589661271
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2008

Synopsis

The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasio’s Error and Descartes’ Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in Descartes’ Error and Looking for Spinoza from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theory―physical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Gluck’s work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate.

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About the Author

Andrew Gluck is the author of Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth: An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology, also published by the University of Scranton Press.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1589661273
ISBN 13 
9781589661271
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
100