Mind, Matter and Nature Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan between falling asleep and waking

between falling asleep and waking up again

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our extraordinary synthesizing capacities as human beings

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Mind, Matter and Nature Palgrave Palgrave Macmillan between falling asleep and wakingIntroductory texts on the philosophy of mind tend to presume that we are forced into a dichotomy between some version of materialism and substance dualism. Hylomorphism the idea that living material substances are not just matter, but compounds of matter and soul is typically treated as a historical curiosity or as inherently obscure. In Mind, Matter and Nature, James D. Madden offers an alternative: an introduction to contemporary philosophy of mind