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A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory
W. Teed Rockwell
Table of Contents and Sample Chapters
In this highly original work, Teed Rockwell rejects both dualism and the
mind-brain identity theory. He proposes instead that mental
phenomena emerge not merely from brain activity but from an
interacting nexus of brain, body, and world. The mind can be seen not
as an within the body, but as a "behavioral field" that fluctuates
within this brain-body-world nexus. If we reject the dominant form of
the mind-brain identity theory -- which Rockwell calls "Cartesian
materialism" (distinct from Daniel t's concept of the same name)
-- and accept this new alternative, then many philosophical and
scientific problems can be solved. Other philosophers have flirted with
these ideas, including Dewey, Heidegger, Putnam, Millikan, and
t. But Rockwell goes further than these tentative speculations
and offers a detailed alternative to the dominant philosophical view,
August 2005
applying pragmatist insights to contemporary scientific and
6 x 9, 253 pp., 6 illus.
philosophical problems.
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Rockwell shows that neuroscience no longer supports the mind-brain
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