Unsnarling the World-Knot Griffin David Ray
Unsnarling the World-Knot Griffin David Ray The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the world-knot, has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. David Ray Griffin…
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Unsnarling the World-Knot Griffin David Ray
The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the world-knot, has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. David Ray Griffin develops a third form of realism, one that resolves the basic problem (common to dualism and materialism) of the continued acceptance of the Cartesian view of matter. Among realists--those who accept the reality of the physical world--the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consensus that, if we are ever to understand how mind and body are related, a radically new approach is required.
He proposes instead a panexperientialist physicalism grounded in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. In dialogue with various philosophers, including Dennett, Kim, McGinn, Nagel, Seager, Searle, and Strawson, Griffin shows that materialist physicalism is even more problematic than dualism.