Why the Mind-Body Problem CANNOT Be Solved! - Some Final Conclusions in the Philosophy of Mind

In Why the Mind-Body Problem CANNOT Be Solved, Irving Krakow shows that a satisfactory scientific explanation of conscious experience isn't possible for methodological and semantic reasons. The reason is that sentences about conscious experience cannot be deduced from sentences about the brain's neurology without using brain-mind correlations.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 The Correlation Theory of Consciousness Chapter 4 More on Introspection Chapter 5 Why the Mind-Body Problem Cannot Be Solved Chapter 6 Brain-Mind Correlation, Identity Theory, and Reductionism Chapter 7 Epiphenomenalism as a Purely Scientific Problem Chapter 8 The Self, the Brain, and Free Will Chapter 9 Some Final Reflections Chapter 10 What Are We?

About the author

By Irving Krakow

Product details

• Authors: Irving Krakow, Krakow Irving
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2002
• EAN: 9780761822080
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2208-0
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Mind, Body, Spirit