Selves and brains: Tracing a path between interactionism and materialism

Philosophical Psychology 10 (4):489-495 (1997)
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Abstract

A dialog between Donald MacKay and Mario Bunge, printed in the journal Neuroscience over the course of two years beginning in 1977, provides a conscise summary of MacKay's views on the mind-body relationship. In this dialog, MacKay contrasts the dualistic interactionism theory of Popper and Eccles with Bunge's emergentist materialism theory, and then builds a case for a third alternative based on the notion of mental events embodied in, but not identical to, brain events. Although neuroscience has made tremendous progress in the past two decades, MacKay's attempt to trace a path between interactionism and materialism is still worth considering

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Facing up to the problem of consciousness.David Chalmers - 1995 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (3):200-19.
The Mind-Body Problem: A Psychobiological Approach.Mario Bunge - 1981 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (3):282-286.

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