Ralph Stefan Weir

The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics

An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

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Produktbeschreibung

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781032457680
• ISBN-10: 1032457686
• Artikelnr.: 67679182

Autorenporträt

Ralph Stefan Weir is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln and Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. His recent publications include "Bring Back Substances!" (Review of Metaphysics, 2021), "Can a Post-Galilean Science of Consciousness Avoid Substance Dualism?" (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2021), and "Does Idealism Solve the Problem of Consciousness?" (Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Why Does Everyone Hate the Soul? 2. The Decline of
Substance Dualism and the Substance-Property Distinction 3. A Defence of
the Independence Definition of Substance 4. Four Theories of Mind and the
Place of Russellian Monism 5. The Strangeness of Property Dualism 6. Parity
of Reasoning Demands Nonphysical Substances 7. The Consequences of the
Parity Argument for Non-Physical Substances Conclusion