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- ItemAn Analysis of Descartes' Real Mind-Body Distinction: When, and How, Does Descartes Prove that Mind and Body are Distinct(1992) Danzig, David; Gangadean, Ashok K., 1941-; Kosman, Louis Aryeh
- ItemGhostless Cartesianism: Reintegrating the Fractured Self-Consciousness in Action(2009) Kopilow, Emily; Macbeth, Danielle; Yurdin, JoelIn a series of exchanges Hubert Dreyfus and John McDowell take turns accusing each other of succumbing to dualistic theories of action founded in the subtle draws of a Cartesian dualism. The question of the meaning of mindedness, and the extent to which our conceptual capacities extend and are actualized, is the essential question framing what Hubert Dreyfus terms "the battle of the myths" between John McDowell and himself. The paper begins with Dreyfus's phenomenological claim that immersed bodily coping is nonconceptual, nonlinguistic, nonrational, and unminded. The second section supplements McDowell's reply in the exchange, primarily using Mind and World and a series of unpublished lectures. Through McDowell we come to see not only how intentional action cannot be unrational or nonconceptual, he shows us a way to understand how it can be rational and conceptual. The third section introduces what I term 'intellectual activity' as a form of immersed coping that further make Dreyfus's concerns seem unfounded.
- ItemMaking Moves: Professionalism, Performance, and the Mind/Body Problem in Contemporary American Dance(2013) Dowdy, John Griffin; Ghannam, Farha, 1963-This investigation looks at the profession of contemporary American concert dance as a site for studying the relationship between the mind and the body. Working with Foucault's model of the docile body, this thesis accepts the traditionally drawn line between ballet and modem dance as a way of highlighting how Foucault's model must be extended to include the kind of 'docility' found in professional modem dance. We examine the learning process in dance to further understand this version of docility, and enter into a discussion of what has come to be known as the mind-body problem. How does the way we conceptualize the relationship between our mind and our body affect the mind-bodies we live in? We conclude that the jobs we hold affect the people we become, not only because of the physical requirements of a career (whether typing or sledge-hammering), but because of the way a certain career influences peoples ways of thinking about and enacting the mind-body relationship. The ultimate thesis is that the individual's perception of the relationship between the mind and the body is a key example of what I will call a self-constructed-correct stance: an opinion-answer formulated by an individual to an otherwise inaccessible question that in meaningful ways informs the 'correctness' of that answer. Finally, we consider the implications of these stances on 'folk theory'. In a society that privileges the mind, what happens when we ask questions - and consider answers - from the body's perspective?
- ItemThe Interdependence of the Sensible and the Intelligible: Kant's Theory of Moral Conversion(1991) Longwood, Wendy; Dawson, David, 1957-; Wright, Kathleen, 1944-; Dostal, Robert J.