History Of The Mind-body Problem

The mind-body is one of the most intensely debated problems in philosophy. Yet the historical context from which this problem has developed has often been ignored. History of the Mind-Body Problem is a collection of new essays by leading contributors on the various concerns that have given rise to and informed the mind-body problem in philosophy.Contemporary debates over the mind-body problem contain a number of different views on how the problem should be approached, what its sources are, and what its present condition and importance is. History of the Mind-Body Problem puts these views in a much needed historical context and asks anew what this can tell us about the relation of mind to body.The essays in this collection discuss the work of Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes and others, and cover the subjects of the relation between mind and body, consciousness and the unconscious, qualia, perception and intentionality.