Damasio’s Error and Descartes’ Truth
An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
9781589661271
Distributed for University of Scranton Press
Damasio’s Error and Descartes’ Truth
An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasio’s Error and Descartes’ Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in Descartes’ Error and Looking for Spinoza from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theory—physical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Gluck’s work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate.

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