creators_name: Schirra, Jörg R.J.
editors_name: Russ, Raymond C. 
type: newsarticle
datestamp: 2008-11-02 10:01:20
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title: Review of ARNO ROS: Materie und Geist - Eine philosophische Untersuchung (Matter and Mind - A Philosophical Investigation)
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: review, mind/body
abstract: Among the many fascinating questions that have driven our kind to perform science and philosophy, the question of the nature of the mind (or in an older terminology: the soul) is certainly the most exciting one. What are the relations between physical and mental events? Do animals have a mind? Do we have a free will or are all our actions just determined by neuro-physiologic mechanisms? Those questions form the background, in front of which Arno Ros has written a profound philosophical investigation. Organized in six parts, his new book Materie und Geist – Eine philosophische Untersuchung [Matter and Mind – A Philosophical Investigation] offers an extensive as well as exciting analysis of the field of issues often called the mind-body problem. He characterizes possible versions of the problem together with the methods of their proper solutions. An extended review of this book is given in the following.
date: 2007
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Mind and Behavior
volume: 28
number: 1
pagerange: 83-88
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: Arno Ros: Materie und Geist - Eine philosophische Untersuchung, Paderborn: Mentis, 2005. (ISBN: 978-3-89785-397-3)
Arno Ros: Begründung und Begriff, Hamburg: Verlag Meiner, 3 Vol., 1989/90 (ISBN: 3-7873-0962-4)
citation:   Schirra, Dr Jörg R.J.  (2007) Review of ARNO ROS: Materie und Geist - Eine philosophische Untersuchung (Matter and Mind - A Philosophical Investigation).  [Newspaper/Magazine Article]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6245/1/Review_Ros.pdf