TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lowe,E.J.
TI  - Subjects of experience
T2  - Cambridge studies in philosophy
SN  - 0521475031
AV  - BD450 .L65 1996
U1  - ARCH YNDC 126 L913S 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Agent (Philosophy)
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - Subject (Philosophy)
N1  - Includes index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Substance and selfhood -- 3. Mental causation -- 4. Perception -- 5. Action -- 6. Language, thought and imagination -- 7. Self-knowledge
N2  - In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and their bodies, E.J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, thought and action. He defends a substantival theory of the self as an enduring and irreducible entity - a theory which is unashamably committed to a distinctly non-Cartesian dualism of self and body. Taking up the physicalist challenge to any robust form of psychophysical interactionism, he shows how an attribution of independent causal powers to the mental states of human subjects is perfectly consistent with a thoroughly naturalistic world view. He concludes his study by examining in detail the role which conscious mental states play in the human subject's exercise of its most central capacities for perception, action, thought and self-knowledge
ER  -