What is the relation between the mind (thoughts, perceptions, sensations, emotions) and the physical body? The traditional answer, assumed by all religions that believe in an afterlife, is dualism: ...

In the early 20th Century, the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle coined the term “ghost in the machine”. Writing in The ...

We have minds and we have bodies and never the twain shall meet. At least that’s how it feels. In 1641, Rene Descartes published his world changing Meditations on First Philosophy declaring the ...

What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In “The Matter of Mind,” Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of ...

The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense ...

The Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (IISF) will host, from April 10 to 18, the interdisciplinary seminar 'The Theory of Birth and its Philosophical Implications', curated by Emanuela ...

We are very blessed, as a Christian church, to have letters passed down to us that were written in the first century; letters, for example, between the Apostle Paul to one of the new young church ...