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Dmytro Sepetyi
The Mind as Subjectivity: the
Mystery of the Self
…materialism is the
philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
A.Schopenhauer
Many
people, including a past self of mine, have thought that they could
simultaneously take consciousness seriously and remain a materialist. ...this
is not possible, and for straightforward reasons. ...One might say: You can’t
have your materialist cake and eat your consciousness too.
David Chalmers
Content
Book 1. Zombies,
Computers and the Absolute Spirit
Part 1.Untenability of Materialism
1. The Basic
Concepts: Physical and Mental (Matter and Mind/Consciousness)
2. The Soul
Theory against The Brain Theory. The Knowledge
Argument and Representationism
3. Kripke’s
Argument and the Zombie Argument
4. More about “the
Same Thing Seen from Different Points of View”
Afterword.
Materialism as a Form of Scientism
Part 2. From Solipsism to Idealism
7. Does Physical Reality Exist Outside the Mind?
Appendices
Book 2. The Ghost
in the Machine Against
Laplace’s Daemon
Part 3. Dualism and Panpsychism:
Alternatives and Problems
8. The Problem of Personal Identity
9. Varieties of Dualism and Panpsychism
11. Splintered Mind, Russellianism
and Determinism
12.
Karl Popper: Criticism of Materialism and Epiphenomenalism; the Theory of Three
Worlds
13. The Moral-Practical
Aspect: the Problem of Responsibility
14. Problems of Dualistic (Pluralistic)
Ontology
Part 4. Death and Immortality
15. Near-Death
Experiences
16. Kant’s Version
17. The Problem of
Death and Immortality in Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology
Afterword. Spiritual Foibles of the Present:
"the Fear of Religion", Necrophilia and Spiritophobia
Appendices
Metaphysical Realism versus Transcendental Idealism
Susan Blackmore: Materialism
as Illusionism
Glossary
Literature
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