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Souls, Minds, Bodies and Planets1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2017
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What does it mean to say that we have got a mind-body problem? Do we need to think of our inner and outer lives as two separate items between which business must somehow be transacted, rather than as aspects of a whole person?
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