Review by Choice Review
A generation ago the field of philosophy was said to be defined by two opposing factions, linguistic analysis and phenomenology. This book mingles both approaches in the context of the mind-body problem. Chapters contain several essays written and published as long as ten years ago and several others that were prepared especially for this book. For those readers who take for granted that the "obvious" reality of consciousness poses a problem for the embodiment of mind in a physical system (perhaps most professional philosophers), the tight arguments here may be illuminating. For other, who see no special reality in the so-called "awareness of bodily functions" such as brain states, cardiac function, or kidney secretions, the broad scholarship and close reasoning here may seem misdirected. Advanced undergraduates and up. -R. G. Crowder, Yale University
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Review by Choice Review
