Sense Data And The Mind – Body Problem
Perception and Cognition February 26, 2009 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199228201.003.0013 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that late nineteenth-century thinkers, despite their varied philosophical positions, all acknowledged the reality of both mental and physical phenomena, reflecting a shared respect for the integrity of each domain in their mind-body conceptions. |
Abstract
Abstract In the latter part of the nineteenth century, philosophers, physicists, and the new psychologists agreed to this extent in their conceptions of the mind – body problem: they all had a healthy respect for the integrity of both the mental and the physical domains. Whatever their particular commitments, whether phenomenalist, dualist, or materialist, they all accepted the reality of both mental and physical phenomena — where mental phenomena are, in the first instance, phenomenally characterized and perhaps equated with the contents of consciousness, and physical phenomena abstract from the knowing subject and sustain laws governing changes in spatiotemporally characterized objects.