[lit-ideas] The Brain and Its Self
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:21:46 EDT
In a message dated 10/12/2004 8:57:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
As the title of one of his books indicates ('The Self and Its Brain') Popper
did believe in the existence of selves - and unequivocally asserts this in
that work. TSAIB is Popper's most developed work on what might be termed
'the
philosophy of mind'.
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Ah, but it's a co-author book, and one is never sure if it was Sir John who
_thought_ the brain was a self, etc.
Note that McEvoy was implicaturally wrong when he said:
Popper wrote "The self and its brain"
when it's actually
Popper and Eccles wrote "The self and its brain".
It's one of those cases of conjunction-inoperation. In other cases, it _is_
operable:
Mary and John were in the party.
entails
Mary was in the party.
Cheers,
JL
ps. Editorial reviews for the book below
British Journal of Psychiatry
". . . anyone with an interest in philosophy, science, and the future of the
world should read it."
The Jerusalem Post
"...massive ...a theory of beautiful simplicity, with all the relevant data
clearly set out down to recent research findings."
Synopsis
In this work, philosopher Karl Popper and Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist
Sir John Eccles argue the case for a distinctive view of the relation of
mind and body.
Book Description
Distinguished philosopher Sir Karl Popper and Nobel Prize-winning
neuroscientist Sir John Eccles argue the case for a highly distinctive view of
the
relation of mind and body.
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