Unsnarling the World-Knot

Unsnarling the World-Knot
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781556357558
ISBN-13 : 1556357559
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Book Synopsis Unsnarling the World-Knot by : David Ray Griffin

Download or read book Unsnarling the World-Knot written by David Ray Griffin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists--those who accept the reality of the physical world--the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consensus that, if we are ever to understand how mind and body are related, a radically new approach is required. David Ray Griffin develops a third form of realism, one that resolves the basic problem (common to dualism and materialism) of the continued acceptance of the Cartesian view of matter. In dialogue with various philosophers, including Dennett, Kim, McGinn, Nagel, Seager, Searle, and Strawson, Griffin shows that materialist physicalism is even more problematic than dualism. He proposes instead a panexperientialist physicalism grounded in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Answering those who have rejected "panpsychism" as obviously absurd, Griffin argues compellingly that panexperientialism, by taking experience and spontaneity as fully natural, can finally provide a naturalistic account of the emergence of consciousness--an account that also does justice to the freedom we all suppose in practice.


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