02416nam a2200253Ia 4500 304751 20160527184947.0 110712s2002 nyua b 001 0 eng c 2002023233 0465024610 (pbk) (OCoLC)ocm49558993 DLC YUS DLC C#P NOR MUQ BAKER NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP UQ1 BTN DEBBG AU@ DLC 128 F583p Flanagan, Owen J. 43025 LEMB The problem of the soul two visions of mind and how to reconcile them Owen Flanagan. New York Basic Books 2002. xvi, 364 p. ill. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index. 1. Human being -- 2. The human image -- 3. Mind -- 4. Free will -- 5. Permanent persons -- 6. Natural selves -- 7. Ethics as human ecology. "Science has always created problems for traditional ways of seeing things, but now the problem has become acute. Traditional humanistic ideas about the basic nature of humanity are under attack as never before. The very attributes that make us human - free will, the permanence of personal identity, the existence of the soul - are undermined and threatened by the current revolution in the science of the mind. If the mind is the brain, and therefore a physical object subject to deterministic laws, how can we have free will? If most of our thoughts and impulses are unconscious, how can we be morally responsible for what we do? If brains and bodies are constantly undergoing change, how can our identities be constant?" "The Problem of the Soul shows the way out of these seemingly intractable paradoxes. Framing the conflict in terms of two dominant visions of the mind - the "manifest image" of humanistic philosophy and theology, and the scientific image - renowned philosopher Owen Flanagan demonstrates that there is, in fact, common ground, and that we need not give up our ideas of moral responsibility and personal freedom in order to have an empirically sound view of the human mind. With implications ranging from the stem-cell debate and the teaching of evolution to everyday life, this is a profoundly relevant work of philosophy for the common reader."--BOOK JACKET. Philosophical anthropology 150648 Local Naturalism. 141567 Local Philosophy of mind 150673 Local 223299 223299 0 0 ddc 0 128_000000000000000_F583P 0 evl 71683 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Amazon 0.45 486237 0 128 F583p 80000002440124 2017-05-18 00:00:00 r:304751 z:Presup. 2011-12 6