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Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem

Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem


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The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists - those who accept the reality of the physical world - the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consensus that, if we are ever to understand how mind and body are related, a radically new approach is required. The author develops a third form of realism and seeks to resolve the basic problem (common to dualism and materialism) of the continued acceptance of the Cartesian view of matter. In dialogue with various philosophers, including Dennett, Kim, McGinn, Nagel, Seager, Searle and Strawson, Griffin shows that materialist physicalism is even more problematic than dualism. He proposes instead a panexperientialist physicalism grounded in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Answering those who have rejected "panpsychism" as obviously absurd, Griffin argues that panexperientialism, by taking experience and spontaneity as fully natural, can finally provide a naturalistic account of the emergence of conciousness - an account that also does justice to the freedom that we all presu

About the Author :
David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate School. His previous books include Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time (1986), Evil Revisited (1991), and Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy (1992).

Review :
"We owe David Ray Griffin thanks for presenting a careful and well-informed defence of the panpsychist option, a welcome inoculation against a tide of scientistic, if not scientific, accounts of mind." --"Times Literary Supplement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520209442
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520209443
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 590 gr


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