The Elusive Mind
eBook - ePub

The Elusive Mind

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Elusive Mind

About this book

First published in 1969, The Elusive Mind argues that the mental processes are of a quite different nature from physical ones and belong to an entity which is elusive in the sense that it can only be known, in the first instance, by each person in his own case in the course of having any kind of experience. This 'elusive' self is much involved with the body in any conditions we know, but it could also survive the dissolution of the body. The views of thinkers like Ryle, Hampshire, Malcolm, Feigl, and Ayer are subjected to an exceptionally close and critical scrutiny. In presenting these views, the author offers us the substance of the first series of Gifford Lectures he delivered in the University of Edinburgh; and, in what he says on such topics as dreaming; mysticism; and the 'I-Thou' relation and on Christian Theology.

This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy, philosophy of mind, ethics, and religion.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781000456240

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Copyright
  6. Preface
  7. Table of Contents
  8. I Ryle and Descartes
  9. II ‘Knowing How’ and Voluntary Action
  10. III Some Further Themes of The Concept of Mind
  11. IV The New Materialism
  12. V ‘The Humpty Dumpty Argument’
  13. VI Dreaming and Experience
  14. VII Persons and the Structure of Language
  15. VIII Some Conventional Objections to Dualism
  16. IX The Identity Thesis
  17. X Memory and Self-Identity
  18. XI The Elusive Self
  19. XII Self-Identity and Bodily Identity
  20. XIII The Elusive Self and the ‘I-Thou Relation’
  21. XIV Idealism
  22. XV Mysticism and Monism
  23. XVI The Elusive Self in Morals and Religion
  24. Addendum: Private and Public Space
  25. Index