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Kathleen V. Wilkes

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Consciousness and Commissurotomy

Philosophy April 1, 1978 Kathleen V. Wilkes 36 citations

Commissurotomy surgery has lately attracted considerable philosophical attention. It has seemed to some that the surgical scalpel that bisects the brain bisects consciousness and the mind as well; and that the ordinary concept of a person is thereby most seriously threatened. I shall assess the extent of the threat, arguing that it is overestimated. The argument begins with section III; section...