Contemporary Dualism: A Defense (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Ontological materialism, in its various forms, has become the orthodox view in contemporary philosophy of mind. This book provides a variety of defenses of mind-body dualism, and shows (explicitly or implicitly) that a thoroughgoing ontological materialism cannot be sustained. The contributions are intended to show that, at the very least, ontological dualism (as contrasted with a dualism that is merely linguistic or epistemic) constitutes a philosophically respectable alternative to the monistic views that currently dominate thought about the mind-body (or, perhaps more appropriately, person-body) relation.

• | Author: Andrea Lavazza, Howard Robinson
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 292 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138209643
• | ISBN-13: 9781138209640