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dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-02T07:48:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-02T07:48:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Agius, S. (2015). Materialsm and the Mind and Body problem : a critical analysis. Threads, 3, 97-103 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20937 | |
dc.description.abstract | The philosophy of mind has become dominated by the mind and body problem: the relation between the physical (the body) and the mental (the mind). Substance dualism had traditionally been the method for accounting for this problem. Substance dualism though, as we shall see, has been very ineffective in accounting for all problems. A consequence of this failure has been the rise of materialism in the forms of behaviorism, identity theory (also known as physicalism) and functionalism. Many tend to believe that materialism may provide us with the solution to the mind and body problem; however, in this essay I will argue that the materialist perspective, like the substance dualist tradition, is flawed. It can only account for the quantitative and objective aspects of the mind and not the qualitative and personal ones. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Students' Philosophical Society | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dualism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mind and body | en_GB |
dc.subject | Philosophical anthropology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 -- Criticism and interpretation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Materialism -- Philosophy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Philosophical behaviorism | en_GB |
dc.title | Materialsm and the mind and body problem : a critical analysis | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | non peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Threads | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Agius, Sean | |
Appears in Collections: | Threads, Volume 3 (2015) Threads, Volume 3 (2015) |
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