Knowledge, thought, and the case for dualism
"The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstra…
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- Full title :Knowledge, thought, and the case for dualism / Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa.
Summary
"The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind"--
"The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention and imagination of the intellectually curious for thousands of years. In most cultures many people are officially committed to religious views that allow for the possibility of our surviving the total annihilation of our bodies."--
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 283 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107037878, 1107037875, 1107294185, 9781107294189
- oclc:ocn834399861
- LC Classification:BD331
- Dewey Decimal:147/.4
Table of Contents
Preface -- 1. Setting the stage -- 2. Distinctions: versions of physicalism and dualism -- 3. Ontological priorities: taking phenomenology seriously -- 4. Knowledge arguments revisited -- 5. Indirect thought and informative identity -- 6. An ontologically liberating skepticism: the last hope for physicalism -- 7. Objections and replies -- 8. The ubiquitous self: a brief postscript.
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