De-Conditioning and Images of the Mind: Scientific Images and Dualistic Images

• Authors: Joshua R. Farris

Abstracts

EN

“De-Conditioning and Images of the Mind” explores the categories of Stephen Priest as developed in his article, “The Unconditioned Soul.” Through an analysis of historical and contemporary examples of the “conditioned” mode in recent philosophical and scientific discussions of the mind, the article articulates limitations of the proposed methods and advances examples of “de-conditioning” the mind that point in the direction of what Priest calls the “unconditioned.”

Keywords

EN

conditioned; de-conditioning; unconditioned; dualism; eliminativism; reductionism; materialism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 31-47

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Joshua R. Farris

• Universität Bochum

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2023.0022

Biblioteka Nauki

22446428