Philosophy Café Event
- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Date:
- 2 May 2013
- Venue:
- John Hansard Gallery Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Lifelong Learning Team on 023 8059 7261 or email lifelonglearning@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
What is the "Mind/Body Problem"?
Descartes famously held that the mind is an immaterial, thinking substance entirely distinct from the body. If he's right, it's hard to see how mind and body could ever interact - for how can something immaterial causally affect something physical? Most contemporary philosophers would reject Cartesian dualism but the problem of what the mind is, and how it relates to the body (brain), remains pressing today.
This is part of a series of events organised by Lifelong Learning.
Speaker information
Dr Genia Schönbaumsfeld,Senior Lecturer in Philosophy