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Souls, Minds, Bodies and Planets1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

Mary Midgley
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What does it mean to say that we have got a mind-body problem? Do we need to think of our inner and outer lives as two separate items between which business must somehow be transacted, rather than as aspects of a whole person?

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 56 , December 2005 , pp. 83 - 104
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2005

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References

2 Locke, John, Essay Concerning Human Understanding,Google Scholar Bk. 2, Ch. 27, Section 15.

3 Descartes, René, Meditations On The First Philosophy, (tr. John Veitch, Everyman's Library, Dent & Dutton, London 1937)Google Scholar Meditation 6, ‘Of The Existence of Material Things’, p. 135.

4 Ibid, Synopsis of the Meditations, p. 76.

5 Ibid, pp. 76, 139, 77.

6 Essay On Human Understanding, p. 196, Emphasis mine.

7 See Plato, Phaedrus, sections 246–57.

8 Act 1. Scene iv, lines 215 and 223–8.

9 p. 115.

10 p. 8.

11 Atkins, Peter, The Creation (Freeman, W. H., Oxford & San Francisco 1987) p. 53.Google Scholar

12 Ibid, pp. 71, 73, 83, & 85.

13 Chalmers, D.. ‘Facing Up To The Problem of Consciousness’, Journal of Consciousness Studies. Vol. 2, No. 3, 1995.Google Scholar

14 Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Philosophy (New York, Harper & Row 1962) pp. 58–9.Google Scholar

15 Porter, Roy, Flesh In The Age Of Reason (London, Penguin 2003) pp. 65–6.Google Scholar

16 I cannot discuss this topic at length here but I have done so in the end section of my book Science and Poetry.