Problems of Mind and Matter
Published on 6. April 1972
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-521-08508-3 (ISBN)
Description
Professor Wisdom gives an elementary introduction to the applications in philosophy of the analytical method. He believes that the aim of analysis is clarity, whereas the aim of speculative philosophy is truth. After a brief introduction on what analysis is, he discusses the relation of body and mind and seeks for causal relations between mental and material events. He concludes this section with a chapter on Free will, before turning to perception and the external world.
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'It is written with admirable clarity. It contains a number of novel and interesting doctrines, and indeed has something new to say on each of the main topics that it touches ... an excellent introduction to philosophical analysis as practised at Cambridge.' MindMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Worked examples or Exercises
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-08508-3 (9780521085083)
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Content
Prefaces; Part I. Introduction: 1. Analysis and speculative philosophy; 2. First examples of analysis; 3. Analytic vocabulary; Part I. Body and Mind: 1. The analytic problem about ownership; 2. Distinction between mental and nervous events; 3. Denial of mental events - materialism; 4. Correlations between bodily and mental events; 5. Do bodily events occasion mental events and vice versa?; 6. Do bodily events produce mental events; 7. Ownership; 8. Freewill; Part II. Cognition: 9. perception; 10. Knowledge of material things; 11. Judgment and truth; Appendix; Index.