Why the mind-body problem cannot be solved : some final conclusions in the philosophy of mind /
In Why the Mind-Body Problem CANNOT Be Solved, Irving Krakow shows that a satisfactory scientific explanation of conscious experience isn't possible for methodological and semantic reasons. The reason is that sentences about conscious experience cannot be deduced from sentences about the brain&...
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Correlation Theory of Consciousness 1
- Chapter 2 More on Introspection 21
- Chapter 3 Why the Mind-Body Problem Cannot Be Solved 37
- Chapter 4 Brain-Mind Correlation, Identity Theory, and Reductionism 53
- Chapter 5 Epiphenomenalism As a Purely Scientific Problem 71
- Chapter 6 The Self, the Brain, and Free Will 81
- Chapter 8 What Are We? 107.