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Mind incarnate: from Dewey to Damasio.
To be a human being requires a functioning human brain, in a living human body, interacting with complex physical, social, and cultural environments, in an ongoing flow of experience. What could be more self-evident than the fact that the human mind is intrinsically incarnate?
And yet, most people do not believe this. Traditional Western philosophical and religious traditions routinely assume the transcendence of mind over body. They assume that our inmost essence is mental and spiritual, which they regard as distinct from the bodily. To live in our culture is to unwittingly soak up the metaphysical mind-body dualism that pervades our commonsense views of ...
- A Clash of Orthodoxies: An Exchange.
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Dever, Josh George, Robert P. June 1, 2000 700+ words
...following crimes: endorsing a mind/body dualism, rejecting (in a self-contradictory...intrinsically valuable are committed to mind/body dualism. The secularist view in question here...needed also. Since, however, mind/body dualism is almost entirely a dead philosophical...
- Philosophy.
- Magazine article from: Michigan Academician January 1, 2008 700+ words
...humans are temporal, embodied beings and reject the mind/body dualism that dominates philosophical discussions of sexual ethics...acceptance of the lived body avoids the tendency of mind/body dualism to focus on either the mind or body as more important, and...
- Stem cells: starting over?(choose cell lines for stem cell therapies)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report Kaebnick, Gregory E. March 1, 2006 700+ words
...theorists who, accidentally endorsing a kind of mind-body dualism, pay attention only to rationality and ignore the...Jennings is critical of caregivers who, rejecting mind-body dualism too carelessly, infer that irreparable damage to...
- (Re)interpretations; the shapes of justice in women's experience.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2009 700+ words
...in Israeli family law, women's experiences of justice and injustice in a polygamous Bedouin-tribal society, mind/body dualism and the un-just gendered logistics of militarization, trafficking survivors' experiences in the United Kingdom, and...
- The tradition of the church in health and healing.
- Magazine article from: International Review of Mission Marty, Martin E. April 1, 1994 700+ words
...Minimally, someone who subscribes to the thesis that an organic whole is more than the sum of its parts, and who rejects mind/body dualism. Holistic health care: A system of health care predicated on the above. Advocates of holistic care may agree on these...
- Do women need to liberate animals too?
- Magazine article from: Herizons Hoffman, Merle-interviewer October 1, 1996 700+ words
...the enemy of both animal rights consciousness and feminism. Particularly the philosophy of Descartes, the idea of mind/body dualism. So how do you create a new philosophy? CA: Feminist philosophy would say we've got a big problem with Western culture...
- Do Women Need to Liberate Animals too?
- Magazine article from: Herizons Hoffman, Merle October 1, 1996 700+ words
...the enemy of both animal rights consciousness and feminism. Particularly the philosophy of Descartes, the idea of mind/body dualism. So how do you create a new philosophy? CA: Feminist philosophy would say we've got a big problem with Western culture...
- CONVERSATIONS WITH MY COFFEE MAKER
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Chet Raymo November 14, 1994 700+ words
...consciousness and self-awareness will someday be understood purely in neurobiological terms, without reference to mind-body dualism or quantum physics. In other words, the brain is a computer, with neurons firing away like silicon chips." "And Penrose...
