Author : Andrew Lee Gluck
Release : 2007
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth by : Andrew Lee Gluck
Download or read book Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth written by Andrew Lee Gluck. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.