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This is a collection of new essays on the various concerns that have given rise to and informed the mind-body problem in philosophy. The essays range from Aristotle, Aquinas and Descartes to the origins of the qualia.
List of contents
1. Introduction, Tim Crane and Sarah Patterson 2. The Musical, the Magical and the Mathematical Soul, Rae Langton 3. The Soul's Relation to the Body: Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant and the Parisian debate on Monopsychism, M.W.F.Stone 4. How Cartesian was Descartes?, Sarah Patterson 5. The Emergence of the Cartesian Mind, Susan James 6. Intentionality or Phenomenology? Descartes on the Objects of Thought, John Cottingham 7. 'A tumbling-ground for whimsies'? The History and Contemporary role of the Conscious/Unconscious Contrast, Neil Manson 8. The Origins of Qualia, Tim Crane 9. Beyond Dispute: Sense-Datea, Intentionality and the Mind-Body Problem, M.G.F.Martin.
About the author
Tim Crane teaches Philosophy at University College London, UK. Sarah Patterson teaches Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, UK.
