Nagel's Challenge and the Mind-Body Problem

Philosophy

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-270

  Harré, Rom ^a  

^a LINACRE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042923307     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819199000285     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Nagel, T. ‘Conceiving the impossible and the mind-body problem’ Philosophy 73 1998, 337–52.
2. Descartes gives more than one version of ‘Cartesian dualism”. I shall take the phrase to refer to the position set out in Meditation Six. In Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings. Trans. J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff & D. Murdoch, (Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 114.
3. Anscombe, G. E. M. Intention (Oxford: Blackwell, 1957).
4. For a very thorough account of the ‘events, states and processes' metaphysics in the context of the philosophy of mind, see Steward, H. The Ontology of Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). The author's remit is clearly summed up on pp. 3–4, having no truck with affordances or causal powers.
5. Penfield, W. The Excitable Cortex in Conscious Man (Liverpool University Press, 1958).
6. Locke, J. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (London, 1690, Bk II, viii, 25).
7. Chalmers, D. J. Consciousness and Experience (Exeter: Schöningh, 1995). A ‘zombie”, in West Indian folk-lore, is a corpse reanimated by a magician, behaving like a real human being but having no mind.
8. Wittgenstein, L. Philosophical Investigations. Trans. G. E. M. Anscmbe and G. H, von Wright, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), § 242.
9. Honner, J. The Description of Nature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987). Honner's work has lately been supported by the extensive but so far unpublished studies by Steen Brock of Aarhus University.
10. The notion of an affordance appears first in Gibson, J. J. The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (London: Allen and Unwin, 1964), and was further elaborated in Gibson, J. J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1979).