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R. Almeder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Materialism Against Belief in the Existence of Cartesian Mind–Body Dualism
2015Co-Authors: Springer Science+business Media, R. AlmederAbstract:Abstract I discuss fi ve basic objections that materialists often raise to Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism: (1) It is not empirically testable or confi rmable; (2) It is in principle testable and confi rmable, but unconfi rmed; (3) It is testable and confi rmable, but has been shown false; (4) It is unnecessary to explain anything; (5) It cannot serve to explain anything. I will show how unsatisfactory all these objections are. If I am right in what I argue the reductionist posture of contemporary materialism against the existence of Cartesian Immaterial Substances as causal agents in explain-ing human behavior is demonstrably more dogma than anything else. Moreover, the promise of reductive materialism to explain human personality, consciousness, and behavior is unlikely ever to be fulfi lled. Unfortunately, limits on space here prevent a discussion of more positive, empirical research from reincarnation studies and voluntary out-of-body experi-ments providing solid empirical or scientifi c evidence affi rming both the existence of Cartesian Immaterial Substances and some form of personal survival after biological death. So, even though I will not be able to argue here that we have a well-confi rmed scientifi c belief that there are Cartesian Immaterial causes of human behavior that undermine explanations in usual reductionist efforts, we can at least show why the standard and pervasive objections from reductive materialism fail by way of seeking to show that Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism is false
Greco Monica - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On illness and value: biopolitics, psychosomatics, participating bodies
'BMJ', 2019Co-Authors: Greco MonicaAbstract:In its heyday, around the mid-20th century, psychosomatic medicine was promoted as heralding a new science of body/mind relations, with the promise of transforming medicine as a whole. Sixty years on, the field has achieved no more than a respectable position as a research specialism within the medical status quo. This paper articulates the problematic of psychosomatics through a number of propositions that reconnect its promise of novelty to the present and to contemporary concerns. In contrast to classic approaches to ‘psychosomatic problems’, which typically set out by denouncing the conceptual inadequacy of mind/body Dualism, the focus proposed is on the resilience of Dualism as an empirical datum deserving closer analysis. The paper thus asks: what is the character of Dualism considered under the aspect of what it achieves, and thus as an expression of value? Drawing on the thought of A. N. Whitehead, Michel Foucault, and Viktor von Weizsäcker, the argument formulates a set of ‘psychosomatic problems’ informed by the concept of biopolitics and discusses their relevance in relation to the politics of participatory medicine
Monica Greco - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On illness and value: biopolitics, psychosomatics, participating bodies
Medical Humanities, 2019Co-Authors: Monica GrecoAbstract:In its heyday, around the mid-twentieth century, psychosomatic medicine was promoted as heralding a new science of body/mind relations that held the promise of transforming medicine as a whole. Sixty years on, the field appears to have achieved no more than a respectable position as a research specialism within the medical status quo. This paper articulates the problematic of psychosomatics through a number of propositions that reconnect its promise of novelty to the present and to contemporary concerns. In contrast to classic approaches to ‘psychosomatic problems’, which typically set out by denouncing the conceptual inadequacy of mind/body Dualism, the focus proposed is on the resilience of Dualism as an empirical datum deserving closer analysis. The paper thus asks: what is the character of Dualism considered under the aspect of what it achieves, and thus as an expression of value? Drawing on the thought of A N Whitehead, Michel Foucault and Viktor von Weizsacker, the argument formulates a set of ‘psychosomatic problems’ informed by the concept of biopolitics and introduces their relevance in relation to the politics of participatory medicine.
Christina Hughes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tongue sandwiches and bagel days sex food and mind body Dualism
Gender Work and Organization, 2004Co-Authors: Lynne F Baxter, Christina HughesAbstract:The substantive content of our paper is that of Mind-Body Dualism, which we explore through food metaphors. However, our primary aim is to use these food metaphors to explore the difficulties in going beyond dualistic thinking. We do this by focusing on Dualism as a learnt state of being. Accordingly, and using an analysis of pedagogies of the everyday that takes account of particular communities of practice, we seek to demonstrate the (re)production of dualistic frameworks in organizational life. Our conclusion returns to a political agenda that is concerned to go beyond the inevitable hierarchization implicit in dualistic construction. Here we present the case for the retention of the binary and we indicate the work that now needs to take place if we are interested in developing interpretations that express the fluidity of gendered identities.
Lynne F Baxter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tongue sandwiches and bagel days sex food and mind body Dualism
Gender Work and Organization, 2004Co-Authors: Lynne F Baxter, Christina HughesAbstract:The substantive content of our paper is that of Mind-Body Dualism, which we explore through food metaphors. However, our primary aim is to use these food metaphors to explore the difficulties in going beyond dualistic thinking. We do this by focusing on Dualism as a learnt state of being. Accordingly, and using an analysis of pedagogies of the everyday that takes account of particular communities of practice, we seek to demonstrate the (re)production of dualistic frameworks in organizational life. Our conclusion returns to a political agenda that is concerned to go beyond the inevitable hierarchization implicit in dualistic construction. Here we present the case for the retention of the binary and we indicate the work that now needs to take place if we are interested in developing interpretations that express the fluidity of gendered identities.