Pols calls upon the reader to attend to mind itself as a concrete and experientially available reality. This kind of attention, he argues persuasively, reveals mind to be at once causally dependent on the brain and causally effective on the physical processes of the brain and the world. Pols also examines the hierarchical view of mind and causality first proposed by Plato and Aristotle, the supersession of that view by the received scientific doctrine of causality, and the mistaken denial of the power of the mind to know an independent reality -- a denial that resulted from the philosophical doctrines about knowing developed in the era that began with Descartes and ended with Kant.
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Pols calls upon the reader to attend to mind itself as a concrete and experientially available reality. This kind of attention, he argues persuasively, reveals mind to be at once causally dependent on the brain and causally effective on the physical processes of the brain and the world. Pols also examines the hierarchical view of mind and causality first proposed by Plato and Aristotle, the supersession of that view by the received scientific doctrine of causality, and the mistaken denial of the power of the mind to know an independent reality -- a denial that resulted from the philosophical doctrines about knowing developed in the era that began with Descartes and ended with Kant.
Imprint | Cornell University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | August 1998 |
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First published | 1998 |
Authors | Edward Pols |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 176 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-3531-7 |
Barcode | 9780801435317 |
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LSN | 0-8014-3531-5 |