The limits of thought and the mind-body problem

Lund University Cognitive Studies 42 (1995)
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This paper gives an account of Colin McGinn's essay: "Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?". McGinn's answer to his own essay title is that the problem is forever beyond us due to the particular nature of our cognitive abilities.The present author offers a number of criticisms of the arguments which support this conclusion

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Can we solve the mind-body problem?Colin Mcginn - 1989 - Mind 98 (July):349-66.
The Problem of Consciousness.Andrew Jack & Colin McGinn - 1992 - Philosophical Quarterly 42 (166):106.

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