The Human Psyche: The GIFFORD Lectures University of Edinburgh 1978–1979

by John C. Eccles

The Human Psyche is an in-depth exploration of dualist-interactionism, a concept Eccles developed with Karl Popper in the context of a wide variety of brain activities relating to self-consciousness. Opening with a critical discussion of materialist hypotheses on the relationship of mind & brain, it aims to demonstrate the explanatory power of dualist-interactionism in contrast to the poverty & inadequacy of materialist theories of the mind. The mind is accepted as an entity of divine origin which interacts with & controls the material brain.

299 pages, Paperback

First published July 23, 1980

About the author

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.