What Is a Human Being?: A Heideggerian View

by Frederick A. Olafson

Book Overview

This broad, ambitious study is about human nature--treated in a way quite different from the scientific account that influences so much of contemporary philosophy. Drawing on certain basic ideas of Heidegger, the author presents an alternative to the debate waged between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind that involves reconceiving the way we usually think about mental life. Olafson argues that familiar contrasts between the physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521479371
• ISBN13: 9780521479370
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"