Thoughts surrounding the bases of philosophy of the mind
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https://doi.org/10.62876/lr.vi33.3626Keywords:
Materialism, human experience, mind-body problem, dualism, OnthologyAbstract
The main ontological accounts are analyzed with respect to the nature of human experience within the context of the philosophy of mind. On the one hand, different forms of dualism are examined by taking the irreducibility of the mental as the defining criterion. On the other hand, different forms of materialism are explored by taking as definition criterion the possibility of the reduction of the mental, as well as the possibility of its elimination. Through this analysis, I seek to clarify the implicit and explicit ontological presuppositions that determine the nature of each of the accounts.
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