Description
Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy Series
Author: Fumerton Richard
This book offers a new rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism, demonstrating its interconnection with philosophy of mind.
Language: EnglishSubject for Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism:
Approximative price 83.99 €
In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the book of Fumerton Richard
Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism
Publication date: 10-2013
295 p. · 14.5x22.2 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 10-2013
295 p. · 14.5x22.2 cm · Hardback
Approximative price 34.17 €
In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the print on demand of Fumerton Richard
Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism
Publication date: 10-2015
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 10-2015
Support: Print on demand
Description
/li>Contents
/li>Biography
/li>
The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Preface; 1. Setting the stage; 2. Distinctions - versions of physicalism and dualism; 3. Ontological priorities - taking phenomenology seriously; 4. Knowledge arguments revisited; 5. Indirect thought and informative identity; 6. An ontologically liberating skepticism - the last hope for physicalism; 7. Objections and replies; 8. The ubiquitous self - a brief postscript.
Richard Fumerton is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. His most recent publications include Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002), Epistemology (2006) and The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (with Wendy Donner, 2009).
© 2024 LAVOISIER S.A.S.
These books may interest you
Contemporary DualismA Defense 50.12 €
Contemporary DualismA Defense 172.36 €