A Logician's Perspective on the Relation Between the Mind and Body

Mentality and Modality

John P. Burgess (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

139 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0189-4 (ISBN)

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When philosophers today debate the age-old problem of the relation of mind or soul to matter or body, they tend to get involved quickly in discussing not just what actually is but also what possibly may be or by contrast what necessarily must be. No thesis in this much-disputed area has been the topic of more extended discussion than that of the "supervenience", as it is called, of the mental on the physical, according to which for any difference in the mental to have been possible, some difference in the physical would have been necessary. In this book a recognized authority on modal logic, the logic of the necessary and the possible, critically examines, from a logician's distinctive point of view, the supervenience debate in philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology, and ends up questioning not so much the truth as the significance of the supervenience thesis.

John P. Burgess received a doctorate in logic and methodology from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 1974, and has for almost fifty years since been on the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Princeton University, USA, serving for most of that time as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He also holds associated faculty status in mathematics and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published nine books and more than one-hundred papers on topics in logic and related areas of philosophy (among them computability theory, set theory, non-classical logics, mathematical existence and proof, the nature of truth, and the thought of Gottlob Frege and of Saul Kripke). In his latest work he turns his logician's eye towards debates on the mind-body problem, bringing an outsider's perspective to some much-debated issues, and aspiring to provide an irritant to stimulate re-examination of some points which have been taken for granted for too long.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.05.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0189-8 / 1036401898
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0189-4 / 9781036401894
Zustand	Neuware