Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism

by Joseph Margolis

Book Overview

Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism. Professor Margolis starts his investigation, however, with a critique of the range of contemporary materialist theories, and does not find them viable. None of them, he argues, "can accommodate in a convincing way the most distinctive features of the mental life of men and oflower creatures and the imaginative possibilities of discovery and technology" (p. 8). In an extraordinarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027708630
• ISBN13: 9789027708632
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"