The Problem Of The Soul: Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile Them - Softcover

Flanagan, Owen

 
9780465024612: The Problem Of The Soul: Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile Them
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465024610 ISBN 13: 9780465024612
Verlag: Basic Books, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Science has always created problems for traditional ways of seeing things, but now the very attributes that make us human -- free will, the permanence of personal identity, the existence of the soul -- are threatened by 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? If brains and bodies undergo relentless change, how can our identities be constant? The Problem of the Soul shows the way out of these 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 -- Owen Flanagan demonstrates that there is 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. This is a profoundly relevant work of philosophy for the common reader.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at Duke University. The author of the classic Consciousness Reconsidered, he lives in Durham, North Carolina.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465024610
ISBN 13 
9780465024612
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
preigu
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabrück
49078
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780465024605: The Problem Of The Soul Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile Them

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0465024602 ISBN 13:  9780465024605
Verlag: Basic Books, 2002
Hardcover