James D Madden. Mind, Matter, And Nature A Thomistic Proposal For The Philosophy Of Mind
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- James D Madden. Mind, Matter, And Nature A Thomistic Proposal For The Philosophy Of Mind
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- 1910
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James D Madden. Mind, Matter, And Nature A Thomistic Proposal For The Philosophy Of Mind
Author: James D Madden
Year: 1910
James D. Madden’s Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind (2013) serves as both an accessible introduction to the contemporary philosophy of mind and a rigorous defense of St. Thomas Aquinas’s hylomorphism. Madden’s central argument is that modern philosophy of mind has artificially trapped itself in a false dichotomy, forcing thinkers to choose between reductive materialism (physicalism) and Cartesian substance dualism. He proposes the Aristotelian-Thomistic framework of hylomorphism as a superior "third way" to understand human consciousness, intentionality, and nature. 1. Dismantling the Modern DichotomyMadden surveys the landscape of 20th-century analytic philosophy, giving a fair-minded presentation of mainstream theories like functionalism, identity theory, and non-reductive physicalism. He demonstrates how materialism struggles to account for the subjective reality of consciousness and the intentionality of thought, while substance dualism (the "ghost in the machine" model) fails to explain the profound unity of mind and body. 2. The Hylomorphic AlternativeRather than treating hylomorphism as an obscure historical curiosity, Madden translate
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