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Unsnarling the world-knot : consciousness, freedom, and the mind-body problem

Title
Unsnarling the world-knot : consciousness, freedom, and the mind-body problem / David Ray Griffin.
Author
Griffin, David Ray, 1939-2022.
Publication
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.

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Description
xv, 266 pages; 24 cm
Summary
The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. David Ray Griffin develops a third form of realism, one that resolves 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. Griffin argues compellingly that panexperientialism, by taking experience and spontaneity as fully natural, can finally provide a naturalistic account of the emergence of consciousness.
Subject
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Consciousness
  • Mind and body
  • Free will and determinism
  • Consciousness
  • Free will and determinism
  • Mind and body
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Bewustzijn
  • Vrijheid
  • Lichaam en geest
  • Filosofische aspecten
  • Speculative Philosophy
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy & Religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
Contents
1. What Is the Problem? -- 2. Paradigmatic and Wishful-and-Fearful Thinking -- 3. Confusion about Common Sense -- 4. Regulative Principles -- 5. Data -- 6. Problems of Dualism and Materialism and Their Common Root -- 7. Fully Naturalizing the Mind: The Neglected Alternative -- 8. Matter, Consciousness, and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness -- 9. Compound Individuals and Freedom -- 10. Supervenience and Panexperientialist Physicalism.
ISBN
  • 0520209443
  • 9780520209442
LCCN
97008390
OCLC
  • ocm36656392
  • 36656392
  • SCSB-9580018
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library