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| | mind-body problem - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about mind-body problem |
 | | Dualism asserts the distinctness of mind and body. | | | The idealist and the materialist views are both monist views – that is, that body and mind are one substance (monism). | | | Epiphenomenalism is the theory that mind has distinctive and irreducible qualities but no power over the body. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/mind-body+problem
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| | Mind-body problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The mind-body problem examines the relationship between the human body and the mind. | | | The mind-body problem, to put it as generically and broadly as possible, is this question: "What is the basic relationship between the mental and the physical?" For the sake of simplicity, we can state the problem in terms of mental and physical events. | | | The mind-body problem can be introduced more fully with the following example. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_mind-body_problem
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| | The Mind-Body Problem |
| | Descartes thinks that the mind and body are two separate substances which interact (hence, “dualistic interactionism.” Also called “substance dualism”). | | | But this just proves that his mind could be something different from his body | | | A “no” answer, these days, implies some sort of “materialism” – the belief that although minds are distinct, there has to be some way to explain them in terms of physical states (you could say that material things don’t exist, but nobody takes this position seriously any more) |
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http://personal.ecu.edu/hullg/intro/MindBody.htm
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| | Introduction |
| | Much of the intellectual history of psychology as both a scientific and a clinical enterprise has involved the attempt to come to grips with these two problems of mind and body. | | | If the distinction between intangible and unextended mind and tangible and extended physical nature is maintained, however, the mind/body problem is also the problem of the relation of the mind to the world around us. | | | So phrased, this contradiction constitutes one half of the mind/body problem -- that of the relation of mind to brain. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Intro.html
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| | THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM |
| | The strength of the theory lies in its candour: psychophysical parallelists simply shrug their shoulders at the problem of interaction while making full use of the rich languages of mind and body. | | | In the case of the mind-body problem, this means that Aristotelian thinking never died and was perpetuated, for example, in the study of living phenomena ('biology' is a nineteenth-century term). | | | The attempt to retain a simple dichotomy between mind and body is also hard to maintain in the face of recent studies of psychosomatic symptoms. |
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| | The Mind-Body Problem |
| | The holistic health movement grows out of a critique of the mechanical one-sided view of the body that has ruled the medical field, and refers to the belief that mind and body are so intimately connected that one's state of mind actually influences one's physical health. | | | Because of their dual role of controlling physiological arousal and mediating emotion, neuropeptides seem to be an important component in the interaction between mind and body. | | | Strout (1996) believes that this explanation best resolves the problem of multiple copies of a person's mind, but he still can't escape the first explanation (A=B), which he himself condemned as inadequate to address the issue, because A and B are still the same at the instant A is copied. |
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http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1517/mindbody.html
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| | Cognitive Science - The Mind Body Problem |
| | Philosophers were grappling with the mind-body problem even before Descartes time. | | | Then again, there may be a mind in addition to the brain that is responsible for some aspects of cognition (such as consciousness), and that does not die when the body does. | | | Ryle believed that the mind was part of a different category, because its material and structure were different from that of the body. |
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http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/teaching/psy333/philo_mindbd.html
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| | mind/body problem |
| | These questions constitute the mind/body problem, which Schopenhauer, quite rightly I think, referred to as "the world knot." But these are vague questions, and it is my aim here to clarify what they are asking and why it is a philosophical problem. | | | Now, I think that the mind/body problem can be viewed as a paradox resulting from the conflicting claims of these five statements, and the various theories of the mind/body relationship can be viewed as attempts each to deny one or more of the above theses. | | | If this paper has a theme, it is that, unfortunately, the mind/body problem is alive and well. |
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http://www.user-friendly.net/articles/mind.htm
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| | The Mind-Body Problem |
| | Dualism: the mind is distinct from the body. | | | The Identity Theory: the mind is identical to the body. | | | Therefore, the mind is not identical to the body. |
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http://www.uwyo.edu/moffett/courses/phil1000/lecture20.html
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| | The Mind-Body Problem |
| | The mind-body problem is a philosophical problem, and as such it has philosophical solutions. | | | In the Middle Ages, the mind-body problem was not even identified as a problem, and, therefore, the "solution" then was completely confounded, meaning that mind and body were thoroughly bound up together in one complex and confusing bundle. | | | Those speculations get to the heart of the mind-body problem, namely where does reality lie? |
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http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/MindBody.html
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| | Buddhism and Science |
| | All these refer to the elusive relationship between the body and the mind referred to more generally as the brain mind problem. | | | He adds that if we knew T, then we have a constructive solution to the mind-body problem. | | | Many who research on the brain-mind problem proceed with the a priori assumption that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. |
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http://www.beyondthenet.net/misc/science4.htm
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| | Mind Body Problem |
| | It is clear, however, that traditional views of materialism are most inconsistent with the new paradigm and that the mind body problem is fundamentally recast. | | | The mind body problem has often been approached within the framework of materialism or dualism. | | | Pribram (1986), for example, advocated a neutral monism, in which mind and matter both exist and interact. |
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| | Is the Mind Physical? : Philosophy of the Mind-Body Problem |
| | The brain construes the pain in the area of the body where the incoming nerves are rooted. | | | The point is that the identity theory is inconsistent, but the problem becomes glaringly obvious only when the brain is subject to some such extreme treatment. | | | While the cells are firing, it is indeterminate in whose mind the pain occurs, or indeed whether it is occurs in anyone's mind. |
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| | Nagel: Mind and Body |
| | This is the 'qualia' and neural states problem, a problem which presumes the ontological status of bodies and Persons as individuals. | | | There is no accepted resolution to the problem of explaining or eliminating the seeming dualism of First Person experience, consisting of bodily sensations, qualia and so on, and Third Person experience, consisting of perceived things and processes in physical space and time. | | | Though the problem was famously formulated as a dualism by Descartes [See footnote 2] in terms of a metaphysics of substances and properties this metaphysical framework can and has sustained a variety of ways of dealing with the seeming incompatibility of the material and the mental. |
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| | The Mind-Body Problem: Toward a Second-Best Solution |
| | “Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories” in Rosenthal, David M. (ed.), Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem. | | | It seems that if we accept his conclusion, we have no more reason to adopt his naturalistic presuppositions about what an acceptable solution to the mind-body problem must be like than any of many other possibilities. | | | Folk psychology both sets the problems and suggests terms of solutions for the problems that must be addressed by an adequate theory of the mind. |
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| | mind-body problem -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Metaphysical problem of the relationship between mind and body. | | | In more recent metaphysics less has been heard of the soul and more of the mind; the old problem of the relationship of soul and body is now that of the relationship of mind and body. | | | mind-body problem -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
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| | Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - dualism |
| | If a convincing rejection of dualism can be formulated, the classic mind-body problem will be solved by its becoming a non-problem and the materialist approach of modern science will be vindicated. | | | It is this question that must be answered to solve the classic mind-body problem. | | | Philosophers of mind have, for the past ten years begun to seriously question the possibility that science will be able to close the explanatory gap between the brain and our conscious experience, or qualia (termed the 'hard problem' by Chalmers). |
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http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/dualism.html
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| | Descartes and the "Mind/Body Problem" |
| | Descartes tried to answer this problem by suggesting that the mind and the body connected via the pineal gland of the brain. | | | By eliminating spiritual substance from the equation they dissolve the mind/body problem. | | | Secondly, he tells us that the mind is commingled with the body and that the commingling takes place via one point in the brain. |
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http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~gsas/philosophy/mindbodyproblem.htm
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| | Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - mind-body problem |
| | mind-body problem - Most generally, the problem of describing the relationship between the mind and body (or brain). | | | Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - mind-body problem | | | Perhaps the oldest problem in the philosophy of mind, the mind-body problem dates back at least to Plato. |
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| | The Mind/Body Problem |
| | The Mind/Body Problem - Lecture Notes for 10/14-10/19 | | | Therefore, my mind is more intimately connected with me than my body, and thus my mind has a property (the property of being essentially connected to me) that my body lacks. | | | If my mind has at least one different property than my body, then my mind cannot be identical to my body. |
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http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~storre/phil100/dualism.htm
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| | mind-body problem |
| | the problem of explaining the relation of the mind to the body. |
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| | What is the mind/body problem? |
| | Coursework and Essays: By Level: A2 and A-Level: Philosophy & Ethics: Philosophy: What is the mind: body problem | | | Below is a short sample of the essay "What is the mind/body problem?". | | | Descarte believes that there is a constant interaction between the mind and body. |
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| | There Is Only One Mind/Body Problem |
| | The original mother of all mind/body problems was simply enough stated: It was a persistent conceptual difficulty we all had with equating mental and physical states -- with squaring the felt quality of pain, for example, with any functional or neurophysiological story anyone might tell us. | | | Harnad, S. (1992) There Is Only One Mind/Body Problem. | | | This successful demonstration would on the face of it seem to count in favor of the independence of the aboutness problem from the qualia problem, and hence it would seem to support, rather than refute, the existence of more than one mind/body problem. |
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http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnadXX.one.mind.body.problem.html
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| | The Mind Body Problem |
| | Cartesian dualism, and the general problem of the relation of the mind to the body, is a subject which aroused considerable controversy as soon as Descartes' Meditations started to be circulated. | | | What philosophers call the mind body problem originated with Descartes. | | | One place to start is to read the article on "The Mind Body Problem" in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, editor, Paul Edwards. |
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| | THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM with JULIAN ISAACS, Ph.D. |
| | And yet, if you talk of mind as being some nonphysical entity which is associated with the body, the whole issue of how that association takes place, and where do minds come from, arises. | | | I'm saying that the attempt to reduce mind to just being the brain seems to have failed in some way, and that the philosophers are aware of that. | | | What Tart hypothesizes is that perhaps there is some form of overall, total mind stuff, of which we become individuated small subsections, when somehow -- and he hasn't explained this -- there is an association between this basic awareness and the brain. |
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| | Amazon.com: Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem; In Defence of Interaction: Books: KARL R. POPPER |
| | Amazon.com: Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem; In Defence of Interaction: Books: KARL R. Your | | | Popper creates an original (and useful) theoretical framework to interpret the interaction of mind and body- the world3 model. | | | Another problem with Popper's epistemology is that he reduces epistemological concepts to ontological things. |
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| | BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - The Mind/Body Problem |
| | This thinking is the basis of what's known as 'Cartesian dualism', Descartes' attempt to address one of the central questions in philosophy, the mind/body problem: is the mind part of the body, or the body part of the mind? | | | BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - The Mind/Body Problem | | | Although the whole mind seems to be united to the whole body, I recognize that if a foot or an arm or any other part of the body is cut off nothing has thereby been taken away from the mind". |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050113.shtml
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Mesos-Misericordiam |
| | Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation | | | What Am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem | | | The Enigma of the Mind: The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought |
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| | LANGUAGE AND THE BODY-MIND PROBLEM |
| | (1) The problem can be solved by pointing out that there are two languages, a physical and a psychological language, but not two kinds of entities, bodies and minds. | | | 4.5 This, I think, solves the so-called problem of 'other minds'. | | | The relation between these kinds of facts constitutes our problem, which can therefore only be formulated by constructing one language in which we can speak about both kinds of facts. |
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