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The Impossibility of Interaction between Mind and Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

E. Gaviola
E. Gaviola*
Affiliation:
University of Buenos Aires, Fac. of Sciences
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Extract

The progress of psychology as scientific theory has been handicapped by the circumstance that it has been inclined to deal with two kinds of problems: on the one hand, with emotions, instincts, complexes, ideas, etc.; on the other, with the working of the sense-organs and of the central and sympathetic nervous system. To approach the first task it has had to create a system of mentalistic or introspective concepts, like the ones mentioned; to deal with the second enterprise it has adopted the physical language used by the natural sciences.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1936 , pp. 133 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1936

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Footnotes

1

This paper owes its origin to a series of lectures given in 1933 at the “Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores” in Buenos Aires, which were partially published in “Cursos y Conferencias, Año III, N. 4, p. 369 (1934),” Buenos Aires.

References

2 Philipp Frank, “Das Kausalgesetz und seine Grenzen,” Springer, Wien, 1932.

3 The Philosophy of Spinosa, by Joseph Ratner, p. 160, Tudor 1926–7.

4 A detailed discussion of this duality has been published in “Contribución al Estudio de las Ciencias, Univ. de La Plata, Vol. 5, p. 245, (1931).