creators_name: de Leon, David type: preprint datestamp: 1998-11-23 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:51 metadata_visibility: show title: The Limits of Thought and the Mind-Body Problem ispublished: unpub subjects: phil-epist subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: Mind-Body Problem, Colin McGinn, cognitive limits abstract: This paper gives an account of Colin McGinn's essay: "Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?". McGinn's answer to his own essay title is that the problem is forever beyond us due to the particular nature of our cognitive abilities.The present author offers a number of criticisms of the arguments which support this conclusion. date: 1995 date_type: published refereed: FALSE citation: de Leon, David (1995) The Limits of Thought and the Mind-Body Problem. [Preprint] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/367/3/LUCS42.pdf