Brainstorms (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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- Author: Daniel C. Dennett
- First Published: 1978
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Context
The nature of the mind and the relation of the mind to the body and to the physical world have been vexing problems for modern philosophy. French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist René Descartes formulated the most influential version of dualism, the view that the mind and the body are two different types of entities. As a physiologist, Descartes understood that the human body could be understood as a mechanism. He believed that the mind, being rational, could not be reduced to mechanistic physics. Therefore, he concluded that human beings consist of two...
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