Author: Ducasse, Curt John [1881 - 1969]
Title: Nature, Mind, and Death
Description: La Salle [IL], Open Court Publishing. 1951. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xix,514 pp, Series: The Paul Carus Foundation Lectures, 8.. Minor rubbing. Some light cover soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Philosophy: its subject matter, method, and utility: Metaphysics,knowledge, and mind-body problem; The problems of any science; The practical problems of philosophy; The theoretical problems of philosophy; The method of knowledge in philosophy; Philosophical method, reality, and the mind-body problem; Fundamental categories: Causality of Hume's analysis; Analyses of the causal relation; The universality and uniformity of causation; Causality, Substances, Properties, and Events; Causality, determinism; and freedom; Nature, matter, and minds: Nature, matter, and mind as behavior; The relation of sensa to sensing; What is mental?; Objective reference, objects, and the perception of nature; The mental operations; The substantiality of minds; The mind-body relation and the posibility of a lifr after death; The case against the possibility of survival; The case for the possibility of survival; Some theoretically possible forms of survival.

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