Mind & Matter

by Stout, G. F.

• ISBN13: 9781107616615
• ISBN10: 1107616611
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Originally published in 1931, this book forms the first of two volumes based on the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1919 and 1921. The second volume, God and Nature, was originally published in 1952. The text provides a philosophical discussion of the nature of experience, examining the fundamental principles of knowledge regarding the physical world, the self and minds other than our own. Throughout this discussion, a carefully defined 'common sense' position is put forward as the mediating factor in the relationship between the mind and the material world. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy, psychology and theories of knowledge.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Animism of Common Sense

Common sense and philosophy

The animistic view of casual process

Teleological animism

Aesthetic animism

The Psycho-Physical Problem

The nature of the psycho-physical problem

Interactionism, parallelism, and materialism

Parallelism versus interactionism

Transition to the criticism of materialism

Materialism incompatible with the general order of nature

Materialism incompatible with the nature of causal process

Materialism incompatible with the teleological order

Transitional: the embodied self of self-consciousness

Knowledge of Physical Existence - Historical and Critical

Typical theories

The Kantian view

The Kantian view (continued) - the transcendental object

Criticism of typical theories

Immediate knowledge and immediate experience

Knowledge of Physical Existence - Positive View

The perception of external objects

How physical existence can be known - introductory

The knowledge of physical existence as founded in sense-experience - the sensory continuum

Contrast between immediate knowledge of sensa and of physical phenomena

Primary and secondary qualities

The activity factor

Final treatment of the psycho-physical problem

Index

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