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Unsnarling the World-Knot by David Ray Griffin (1998, Hardcover) 
Unsnarling the World-Knot by David Ray Griffin (1998, Hardcover)

 
Unsnarling the World-Knot by David Ray Griffin (1998, Hardcover)

Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0520209443
ISBN-13: 9780520209442
Product ID: EPID682418
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Publication Date:1998-02-01

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Length:266 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "worldknot", has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists -- those who accept the reality of the physical world -- the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consensus that, if we are ever to understand how mind and body are related, a radically new approach is required. David Ray Griffin develops a third form of realism, one that resolves the basic problem (common to dualism and materialism) of the continued acceptance of the Cartesian view of matter. In dialogue with various philosophers, including Dennett, Kim, McGinn, Nagel, Seager, Searle, and Strawson, Griffin shows that materialist physicalism is even more problematic than dualism. He proposes instead a panexperientialist physicalism grounded in the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Answering those who have rejected "panpsychism" as obviously absurd, Griffin argues compellingly that panexperientialism, by taking experience and spontaneity as fully natural, can finally provide a naturalistic account of the emergence of consciousness -- an account that also does justice to the freedom that we all presuppose in practice.

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