23.0 x 15.0cms 402pp very good paperback & cover This book engages with the Salman Rushie affair; Islam''s totalitarian nature; Islams relationship to democracy & human rightswomen & Islam; Islam in the West etc etc.

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Titolo: Why I Am Not A Muslim
Editore: Prometheus Books New York 1995
ISBN 10: 1591020018
ISBN 13: 9781591020011
Rilegatura: Brossura

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Descartes with his sharp separation of the mental and the physical set the stage for the philosophy of mind for the next 350 years. Philosopher Patrick T. Mackenzie finds in the later writings of Wittgenstein the suggestion that Descartes got off on the wrong foot. Following Wittgenstein's lead, Mackenzie argues that instead of analyzing our human nature as a composite of mind and body, we should view ourselves as whole persons.

One of the dividends of this approach to the mind-body problem is that it provides us with a resolution to the problem of human freedom�i.e., how can a human being be free if his or her body (including the brain) belongs to a deterministic world? Mackenzie here argues that the person is largely free even though the movements of the body are determined by neurophysiological events.

He takes the same approach to the philosophy of mind as that taken by M.R.Bennett and P.M.S.Hacker in their recent and controversial book, The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience. Mackenzie's approach is, however, much more accessible.

Students of philosophy and philosophers interested in the problem of human freedom will welcome Mackenzie's fresh approach, especially those disenchanted by the present list of mind-body "isms."

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Patrick T. Mackenzie is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

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