The problem of the soul : two visions of mind and how to reconcile them

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The problem of the soul : two visions of mind and how to reconcile them

Owen Flanagan

Basic Books, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The illusions we must give up--concerning free will, personal identity, and the existence of the soul--and the (surprisingly rich) ideas we can keep. Traditional ideas about the basic nature of humanity are under attack as never before. The very attributes that make us human--free will, the permanence of personal identity, the existence of the soul--are being undermined and threatened by the current revolution in the science of the mind. If the mind is the brain, and therefore a physical object subject to deterministic laws, how can we have free will? If most of our thoughts and impulses are unconscious, how can we be morally responsible for what we do? The Problem of the Soul shows the way out of these seemingly intractable paradoxes. Framing the conflict in terms of two dominant visions of the mind--the "manifest image" of humanistic philosophy and theology, and the scientific image--renowned philosopher Owen Flanagan demonstrates that there is, in fact, common ground, and that we need not give up our ideas of moral responsibility and personal freedom in order to have an empirically sound view of the human mind.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA59473889
  • ISBN
    • 0465024602
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xvi, 364 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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