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| Mind Body problem: the question of how thinking and sensibility arise from matter, and how the relationship of the mental and the material without which the mental (psychic, psychical) is not possible can be explained. See also substance, res Cogitans, dualism, monism, identity theory, materialism, physicalism, functionalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Putnam V 108 Def Interactionism/Putnam: theory, according to which spiritual events interact with physical ones. Whereby the direction of origin could be in one direction as well as in the other! Descartes: the mind could influence matter if it was very, very ethereal (pineal gland). Notorious. V 109 Most naïve version of interactionism: the mind as a kind of ghost that lives in the bodies. Vs: But it is not clear why we should have such complicated brains at all, it could be a very simple control mechanism. Descartes: (refined) mind and brain form a substantial unity. Somehow it is the mind-brain unity that thinks, feels, and represents a personality. I.e. that the mind is not what we commonly call the mind, but the unity of brain (body) and spirit. PutnamVsDescartes: obscure: unity of two substances._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. |
Pu I H. Putnam Von einem Realistischen Standpunkt Frankfurt 1993 Pu II H. Putnam Repräsentation und Realität Frankfurt 1999 Pu III H. Putnam Für eine Erneuerung der Philosophie Stuttgart 1997 Pu IV H. Putnam Pragmatismus Eine offene Frage Frankfurt 1995 Pu V H. Putnam Vernunft, Wahrheit und Geschichte Frankfurt 1990 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-06-23