Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

Informationen zum Autor Richard Fumerton is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. His most recent publications include Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002), Epistemology (2006) and The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (with Wendy Donner, 2009). Klappentext This book offers a new rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism, demonstrating its interconnection with philosophy of mind. Zusammenfassung Fumerton makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism - the observation that we can know the truth that we exist without knowing any truths about the physical world. The book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Setting the stage; 2. Distinctions - versions of physicalism and dualism; 3. Ontological priorities - taking phenomenology seriously; 4. Knowledge arguments revisited; 5. Indirect thought and informative identity; 6. An ontologically liberating skepticism - the last hope for physicalism; 7. Objections and replies; 8. The ubiquitous self - a brief postscript.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Fumerton, Richard (University of Iowa) Fumerton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107037878
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03787-8
• No. of pages: 295
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works