Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth: An Inquiry Into Consciousness, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth: An Inquiry Into Consciousness, Epistemology, and Metaphysics
ISBN-10
1589661273
ISBN-13
9781589661271
Category
Philosophy (General)
Pages
146
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
University of Scranton Press
Author
Andrew Lee Gluck

Description

The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in Descartes' Error and Looking for Spinoza from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theory—physical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Gluck's work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate.

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