Mind-body problem

P. Oppenheim, H. Putnam, Unity of science as a working hypothesis, in H. Feigl, M. Scriven, G. Maxwell (eds.), Concepts, Theories, and the Mind-Body Problem. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 2 (Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 1958), 3-36. 

Reductive chain physicalism was the only version of physicalism in its early days, and it still has hold on some people. It was the mind-body problem which has has led to the emergence of another version of the doctrine, non-reductive physicalism. By the seventies, many people came to believe that the mental cannot be reduced, but it should not be eliminated. So they looked for a different way to elaborate physicalism, and they found it in the notion of the supervenience. They formulate the doctrine as saying that everything supervenes on the physical. 

As a result of the conceptual and political split between psychiatry and neurology caused first by the mind-body problem and deeply aggravated by Sigmund Freud s inadvertent dualism, it took dream science an inordinately long time to notice that cerebrovascular accidents (better known as strokes) and epileptic seizures (better known as fits) could cause decreases and increases in the formal features of dreams, respectively. 

I myself believe that even the hard problem, the problem of qualia, and the mind-body problem itself, are effectively solved once we... 

Hruby VJ. Design in topographical space of peptide and pep-tidomimetic ligands that can affect behavior. A chemist s glimpse at the mind-body problem. Acc. Chem. Res. 2001 34 389-397. 

Goodman, A. 1991. Organic unit theory The mind-body problem revisited. American Journal of Psychiatry 148 553-63. 

R7 V. J. Hruby, Design in Topographical Space of Peptide and Peptidomi-metic Ligands that Affect Behavior. A Chemist s Glimpse at the Mind-Body Problem , p. 389... 

As the title of Kim s seminal book Mind in a Physical World An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation suggests, his central concern is how mental causation is possible given that our world is fundamentally physical. Some philosophers have denied that our world is fundamentally physical in the way that Kim assumes that it is. A presupposition of the exclusion problem (as I have formulated it) — given physical closure and the physical effects principle, how can mental events be causes if they are not physical events — is that physical closure holds. The philosophers in... 

The mental includes — at least — states, events, processes, entities, and properties. In the way of looking at the mind-body problem that I will be promoting, properties are key, and so I focus on them. 

Further, the same point applies to psychofunctional or neurofunctional accounts, that is, accounts that appeal to detailed empirically oriented functional properties as solutions to the metaphysical mind-body problem. ... 

I argue for this view in Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem and Conceivability and Possibility See Hill (2014), chapters 7 and 15. 

Kim, J. (1998a). The mind-body problem after fifty years. In A. O Hear, ed.. Current Issues in Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-21. Kim, J. (1998b). Mind in a Physical World An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation. MIT Press. 

Kim, J. (2002b). Reponses. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 3, 671-80. Kim, J. (2004). The mind-body problem at century s turn. In B. Leiter, ed.. The Puturefor Philosophy. Oxford University Press. 

Rosenthal, D., ed. (1971). Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem. Prentice-HaU, pp. 162-71. 

Oppenheim, Paul, and Hilary Putnam. 1958. The unity of science as a working hypothesis. In Concepts, theories, and the mind-body problem, ed. Grover Maxwell, Herbert FeigJ, and Michael Scriven, 3-36. Minneapolis Minnesota University Press. 

Van Gulick, Robert N. 2001. Reduction, emergence and other recent options on the mind/body problem A philosophic overview. Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 1-34. 

Kim, Jaegwon. 1998. Mind in a physical world. An essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

Read the What If... The Mind-Body Problem box in this chapter. What is the mind-body problem How does explaining free will become difficult under a purely physical description of human... 

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