344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1969, The Elusive Mind argues that the mental processes are of a quite different nature from physical ones and belong to an entity which is elusive in the sense that it can only be known, in the first instance, by each person in his own case in the course of having any kind of experience. This ‘elusive’ self is much involved with the body in any conditions we know, but it... Read more
Preface 1. Ryle and Descartes 2. ‘Knowing How’ and Voluntary Action 3. Some Further Themes of the Concept of Mind 4. The New Materialism 5. ‘The Humpty Dumpty Argument’ 6. Dreaming and Experience 7. Persons and the Structure of Language 8. Some Conventional Objections to Dualism 9. The Identity Thesis 10. Memory and Self- Identity 11. The Elusive Self 12. Self-Identity and Body Identity 13. The Elusive Self and the ‘I-Thou Relation’. 14. Idealism 15. Mysticism and Monism 16. The Elusive Self in Morals and Religion Addendum: Private and Public Space Index
Biography
H. D. Lewis
