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Publicity, Causation, And The Mind-Body Problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
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Do we still have a Cartesian mind-body problem? Folk wisdom has it that Descartes is responsible for there being a mind-body problem. Nonetheless, the same folk wisdom has it that the mind-body problem is still with us. Discovering the culprit and his modus operandi has not apparently enabled us to neutralize his mischief. How can that be? Perhaps it is because the mind-body problem we have now is not the infamous one of Cartesian origins.
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- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 1980 , pp. 556 - 568
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1 A concept A is said to be logically independent of a concept B if and only if A and B share no essential attributes.
2 Feigl, Herbert, “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical’”, in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis: 1958), v. ii, p. 396Google Scholar.
3 Israel Scheffler, Science and Subjectivity, p. 1.
4 Feigl, p. 301; cf. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, pp. 44:
I… say that the objectivity of scientific statements lies in the fact that they can be inter-subjectively tested.
5 Scheffler, p. 10.