Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem

by Jane Anderson

Book Overview

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "the mind-body problem". The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as "what it is like" to be a certain living creature. David Chalmers refers to the problem of "what-it-is-like" as "the hard problem" of consciousness and claims that this problem is so "hard" that investigators have either just ignored the issue completely, investigated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030996832
• ISBN13: 9783030996833
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"