Damasio′s Error and Descartes′ Truth – An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics and Epistemology

by Andrew Gluck (Author)

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  2008

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  The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasio s Error and Descartes Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in Descartes Error and Looking for Spinoza from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theory physical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Gluck s work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate.