IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM IN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

• Authors: Bugar J.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The main purpose of the paper is to criticize materialism in the philosophy of mind and to search for alternative approaches to the problems of mind, consciousness and body. According to the author, materialism does not present a satisfactory explanation of the mental life of human beings, because it fails to explain phenomena such as conscious experience, sleep, unconsciousness, death. These phenomena point to the fact that consciousness is not identical with the body and can be detached from it. The author adopts the conclusion that the solution to the problem of consciousness is closely connected to the problem of identity of a human individual. A human being plays certain social roles, he or she possesses a body, he or she possesses a mind, but is not identical with them. In its essence, the human being is identical with consciousness.

Keywords

EN

CONSCIOUSSNES; HUMAN BODY; MENTAL LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS; MIND; PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 458-472
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bugar J.

• J. Bugar, for postal addresss contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA05359