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The Immaterial Self : A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0415029899
ISBN-13 9780415029896
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 5th, 1991
Print length 308 Pages
Weight 544 grams
Product Classification: Philosophy of mind
Ksh 27,900.00 Werezi Extended Catalogue

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A controversial book that attacks the current materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind, reviving the arguments for the Cartesian self.

Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self.

John Foster''s new book exposes the inadequacies of the dominant materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind. In doing so he is in radical conflict with the current philosophical establishment. Ambitious and controversial, The Immaterial Self is the most powerful and effective defence of Cartesian dualism since Descartes'' own


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