02352nam a22003858a 4500 CR9781139795401 UkCbUP 20180107143410.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120928s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139795401 (ebook) 9781107037878 (hardback) 9781107559257 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda BD331 .F87 2013 147/.4 23 Fumerton, Richard, author. Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism / [electronic resource] Richard Fumerton. Knowledge, Thought, & the Case for Dualism Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Philosophy Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Dualism Materialism Mind and body Print version: 9781107037878 Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139795401 Cambridge Books Online 236406 236406