The Parallelism of Mind and Body From the Standpoint of Metaphysics: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculties of the Graduate Schools of Arts, ... Doctor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Parallelism of Mind and Body From the Standpoint of Metaphysics: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculties of the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy

It must be granted, then, that metaphysical parallelism has a good deal in its favor. But because it does involve ultimate questions so nearly, its metaphysical bearings cannot be simply thrust to one side and neglected, as if they did not matter. As I have said already, parallelism in its strictly theoretical form is not a doctrine irresistibly demanded by psychological facts rather there are a multitude of facts which apparently point to a mutual influence between mind and body. Indeed, the theory is generally recognized as a paradox; and if it is taken as anything more than a working hypothesis, then the plea is not admissible that, as a scientist, the investigator is not bound to consider the philosophical bearings of his doctrines, particularly as he usually manages to imply a pretty definite philosophical creed. It is hardly fair for the scientist to force us to follow him, under pain of being judged incompetent to appreciate self-evident truths, into regions where contradictions surround us on every side, and then to abandon us there with a few words about ultimate identity. And twofold aspects of reality, which, as we may guess, he leaves so general simply because he is unable himself to think out what they mean. As involving a metaphysical position already, which, more over, in the most violent way splits up the universe into two seem ingly independent halves, a theory of parallelism can be considered as at all successfully established only when the possibility has been shown that it can be adjusted to some tolerably consistent world view.

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