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On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
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Lau Chong-Fuk
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January 20, 2018
Abstract
Even though the Cartesian mind-body dualism has largely been dismissed in contemporary philosophy, the idea that the conscious mind can be a bodiless and non-spatial entity is still held to be possible. This paper examines a series of arguments by Jaegwon Kim, Peter Strawson, and Immanuel Kant against the possibility of a disembodied mind. It is argued that although the concept of a disembodied mind is coherent, it derives from a more fundamental concept in which the mind and the body are originally unified. The unity of mind and body, which can be called a person, is logically prior to the concept of the mind as a disembodied person, and thus the possibility of a disembodied mind turns out to depend on the existence of the physical and spatial world.
Published Online: 2018-1-20
Published in Print: 2017-12-20
© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Bio-Bibliography
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Editorial Preface
- Contents
- Preface
- Embodiment
- I. Experiencing the Living Body — 体验生命体
- The Felt Body and Embodied Communication
- Der Leib als Umschlagstelle zwischen Kultur und Natur
- Exploring Pregnant Embodiment with Phenomenology and Butoh Dance
- What are Senses and Sense Modalities?
- Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research
- II. Collective Bodies and Bodily Resonance — 共同一体和身体共鸣
- “… so etwas wie Leiblichkeit.”
- Mass Emotion and Shared Feelings
- On Bodily Resonance
- III. Embodiment, Mediality and Aesthetics — 具身、媒介与美学
- Aesthetic Turn
- Felt-Bodily Resonances
- Body, Language and Mediality
- Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components
- The Metaphor of the Net
- IV. After Heidegger — 后海德格尔
- “I” “here” and “you” “there”
- Living in the Moment
- Heidegger on the Problem of the Embodiment of God
- V. Parallels with Phenomenolgy — 与现象学的共性
- From the Analysis of the Political Embodiment in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks to a Brief Comparison With Confucianism
- Phenomenology of Embodied Intersubjectivity
- Toward a Liberative Phenomenology of Zen
- VI. Complements to Phenomenology — 对现象学的补充
- The Normative Body and the Embodiment of Norms
- On the Possibility of a Disembodied Mind
- VII. Miscellaneous — 年度文选
- Criticism of Gehlen’s Theory of Instinct-Reduction and Phenomenological Clarification of the Concept of Instinct as the Genetic Origin of Embodied Consciousness
- Technology, Dao-Technē and Home
- Moral Conflicts and the Application of Ethics
- Is “Intention” Present or Not?
- The First Philosophical Word
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
