Realita mysle ako podmienka identity ľudskej osoby

• Authors: Volek Peter

Title variants

EN

A REALITY OF MIND AS A CONDITION OF IDENTITY OF HUMAN PERSON

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper argues for the thesis that the reality of mind is a necessary as well as sufficient condition for a diachronic identity of human person. The impossibility of elimination of qualia and intentionality and thus the impossibility of eliminative materialism was proved here. An impossibility of the theory of identity of types and individuals, together with the impossibility of functionalism as one of the versions of eliminative materialism was proven through a careful consideration of Libet's experiments. Subsequently, dualism surfaced as further option. The views of interactive dualism of Popper and Eccles and that of pragmatic dualism of Carrier and Mittelstrass turned out to be unsuitable in some of their consequences. Hylemorphic dualism turned out to be the best explanation from the sorts of dualism discussed in this paper. Through its understanding of mind as a form, hylemorphic dualism enables us to explain causality as formal and final and thus to separate it form the efficient causality of empirical objects. By this, it also explains the diachronic identity of human person possible.

Keywords

EN

DUALISM; ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM; INTENTIONALITY; LIBET; MENTAL CAUSALITY; PERSONAL IDENTITY; QUALIA; REALITY OF MIND; THOMAS AQUINAS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Palacky University, Cyrill-Method Theological Faculty, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia theologica
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 33-51
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Volek Peter

• Peter Volek, Studia theologica, redakce, Univerzitni 22, 771 11 Olomouc, Czech Republic, http://www.studiatheologica.eu

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA056823