History of the Mind-Body Problem

by Tim Crane (Editor), Sarah Patterson (Editor)

History of the Mind-Body Problem is a collection of new essays by leading contributors on the various concerns that have given rise to and informed the mind-body problem in philosophy.
The essays in this stellar collection discuss famous philosophers such as Aristotle, Aquinas and Descartes and cover the subjects of the origins of the qualia and intentionality.

Genres: Philosophy, Cultural

255 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2000

About the author

​Tim Crane is a professor of philosophy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and Vienna.

He works in the philosophy of mind, and attempts to address questions about the most general nature, or essence, of the human mind, and about the place of the mind in the rest of nature.