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| Mind Body problem: the question of how thinking and sensibility arise from matter, and how the relationship of the mental and the material without which the mental (psychic, psychical) is not possible can be explained. See also substance, res Cogitans, dualism, monism, identity theory, materialism, physicalism, functionalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Arthur C. Danto on Mind Body Problem - Dictionary of Arguments
I 252/3 Def epiphenomenalism: (Def epiphenomenon: side effect). Thesis: No effect comes from the mind. The mind is unable to cause any event. >Epiphenomenalism. Causality only leads from the physical to the physical event or from the physical to the mental but never from the mental to the mental or from the mental to the physical event. >Causality. I 253 Def Parallelism: on the contrary, the view that there are parallel series of events that occur in the two independent substances that cannot interact. For example, pain is not an effect of the hot stove, only a coincidence. It is produced through the mediation of God. This presupposes the constant action of God. (Seventeenth century). I 253 Def Occasionalism: Version of parallelism: two clocks displaying the same time, but without a causal link. I 253 Def Monades/Leibniz: The world consists of an infinite number of causally separated substances, the monads. >G.W. Leibniz. I 254 Spinoza: there can only be one substance of which mind and body (thinking and expansion) are modes. And in such a way that the order and connection of ideas is quite the same as the order and connection of things. >Substance/Spinoza, >B. Spinoza. Each of these teachings is completely superfluous if you give up the substance itself. >Substance,k, cf. >Substrate._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Danto I A. C. Danto Connections to the World - The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, New York 1989 German Edition: Wege zur Welt München 1999 Danto III Arthur C. Danto Nietzsche as Philosopher: An Original Study, New York 1965 German Edition: Nietzsche als Philosoph München 1998 Danto VII A. C. Danto The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) New York 2005 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28