Body and Mind: Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Keith Campbell

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Widely used in philosophy courses, this succinct study explores the problem of determining the relation between the body and mind. In that philosophy seeks to elucidate man’s place and action in nature, Campbell asserts that our assessment of the body-mind problem affects our perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the natural sciences.

After discussing how the body-mind problem developed, Campbell sets forth four incompatible propositions that serve as the framework for evaluating different philosophical approaches to the problem. Among competing perspectives, he examines dualism, behaviorist theories, the causal theory of mind, and central-state epiphenomenalism. This second edition includes a chapter on functionalism and an expanded bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
BODY AND MIND
Title
Copyright
Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
1. THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM AND ITS PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY
(i) What the Problem Is
(ii) Assumptions Involved in the Mind-Body Problem
(iii) The Importance of the Mind-Body Problem
2. HOW THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM ARISES
(i) Four Incompatible Propositions
(ii) The Initial Plausibility of All Four Propositions
3. DUALISMS
(i) Philosophical Objections to Spirit
(ii) Scientific Objections to Spirit
(iii) lnteractionist Dualism
(iv) Parallelism
4. THE BEHAVIORIST SOLUTION
(i) The Behaviorist Doctrine of Mental States
(ii) The Mind-Body Problem and the Problem of Other Minds
(iii) Behaviorism and Mental Causes
(iv) Mental Episodes
(v) The Strength of Behaviorism
5. CENTRAL-STATE MATERIALISM
(i) The Causal Theory of the Mind
(ii) The Significance of Mental Terms
(iii) Central-State Materialism
(iv) The Causal Theory of Mind Examined
(v) The Causal Theory of Mind Amended
6. FUNCTIONALISM
(i) Artificial Intelligence
(ii) Materialism and Chauvinism
(iii) Embodiment and Supervenience
(iv) Strength and Problems of Functionalism
7. A NEW EPIPHENOMENALISM
(i) The Old and New Epiphenomenalisms
(ii) Double Aspect
(iii) The New Epiphenomenalism and the Mind-Body Problem
(iv) The Problems of Other Minds
(v) The Problems of Evolution and Embryonic Development
(vi) The Current State of the Mind-Body Problem
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX