{"product_id":"9788776744311","title":"Mind and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeath is a subject which has always been high on the philosophical agenda. But strangely enough the historically and traditionally most important aspect of that subject - the so-called transcendent problem of death, i.e. the question of what actually happens to mind or consciousness after physical death - is almost taboo-laden within modern academic philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is, however, the contention of this book that a discussion of the transcendent problem of death makes good sense even on contemporary premises, granted the fulfilment of certain preconditions that should not be rejected offhand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main parts of this book deal with questions concerning the viability of preconditions such as mind-body dualism, a substance-theory of mind, a non-reductionist view of personal identity, the notion of 'a minimal self', the persistence of the phenomenal 'now' etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this connection the author presents and evaluates a number of arguments pertaining to the view that, even though an individual mind may contain outward-directed functions that allow it to relate to physical and social surroundings, it has an ontologically peculiar self-enclosed mode of being relative to the physical world. Hereby an understanding of 'the ontology of mind' is achieved, which indicates the possibility of a revival of some old and extremely important metaphysical questions which are commonly and unjustly neglected - for instance the transcendent problem of death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Southern Denmark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063133913328,"sku":"9788776744311","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788776744311_p0.jpg?v=1763750320","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788776744311","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}