Concept tag
#dualism
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My daughter asked where her mind is kept. Is Ryle’s ‘category mistake’ the answer?
My daughter is seven. Last week, while I was plaiting her hair, she asked me where her mind is kept. "Is it in my head, like my brain? Or is it behind my eyes?" I said it was in her brain, and…
Started by Thamarai Selvi Raman4 replies194 views -
Anton Wilhelm Amo’s impassive mind: a better dualism than Descartes’s?
Every year I teach the mind–body unit in Accra, and every year I start with Anton Wilhelm Amo, the philosopher born near Axim on the Gold Coast around 1703, taken to Germany as a child, educated at Halle and Wittenberg, and the…
Started by Kwame Asante5 replies201 views -
Reading group: the Elisabeth–Descartes letters of 1643, slowly
My dissertation is on Sor Juana, and one of the things that work keeps teaching me is how much philosophy by women survives only in letters, prefaces and replies. So I would like to read the most famous case in early modern…
Started by Valentina Ríos6 replies173 views -
The mind–body problem: a beginner’s guide
How can a thought move an arm? The main answers, from Descartes and Elisabeth to functionalism, with stops in classical India and eighteenth-century Wittenberg.
Started by Derek Hollis0 replies108 views