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The Will: Volume 2, A Dual Aspect Theory
Brian O´shaughnessy
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Description for The Will: Volume 2, A Dual Aspect Theory
hardcover. O'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy. Num Pages: 328 pages, 17 figures. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
The phenomenon of action in which the mind moves the body has puzzled philosophers over the centuries. In this new edition of a classic work of analytical philosophy, Brian O'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action and attempts to resolve some of the main problems. His expanded and updated discussion examines the scope of the will and the conditions in which it makes contact with the body, and investigates the epistemology of the body. He sheds light upon the strangely intimate relation of awareness in which we stand to our own bodies, doing so partly through appeal to the concept of the body-image. ... Read more
The phenomenon of action in which the mind moves the body has puzzled philosophers over the centuries. In this new edition of a classic work of analytical philosophy, Brian O'Shaughnessy investigates bodily action and attempts to resolve some of the main problems. His expanded and updated discussion examines the scope of the will and the conditions in which it makes contact with the body, and investigates the epistemology of the body. He sheds light upon the strangely intimate relation of awareness in which we stand to our own bodies, doing so partly through appeal to the concept of the body-image. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521853675
SKU
V9780521853675
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Reviews for The Will: Volume 2, A Dual Aspect Theory
'Brian O'Shaughnessy is one of the best philosophers in England … He has worked by himself largely outside of contemporary philosophical society, and these wild and wonderful volumes reveal with what intensity and on what a scale he has worked … A good philosopher must find his obsession, and it will drive him for the rest of his ... Read more