Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The view from where?

Contemporary philosophy of mind is centrally concerned with the viability of the reductionist approach so prevalent in present-day psychiatry and neuroscience. The philosopher Thomas Nagel has contextualized this trend. In his writing, Thomas Nagel defends the claim—found in classical psychoanalytic theory—that while the human mind is tied to the physical brain, there is something irreducibly perspectival and subjective about human experience, both conscious and unconscious, such that it cannot be wholly explained in terms of, or reduced to, neurophysiological processes in the brain.

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https://audioboom.com/posts/4373596-japa-the-mind-body-problem-and-psychoanalysis

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