About Me

I am a PhD student in Philosophy at Peking University, now staying at Universität zu Köln, Germany. My interests are primarily in Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology and Analytic Phenomenology. Now I am working on my Dissertation: Method, Intentionality, and Knowledge--An essay in analytic phenomenology. --------- I also have substantial interest in Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Ethics.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

I could not care less about the mind-body problem

I could not care less about the mind/body problem, as it is traditionally understood. Of course this is to put it very strongly.

Do not get me wrong, I have considerable interest in the mind/body problem, which has the interpretation of a "mind/body as perceived or lived by mind" problem. Simply put, my version of mind/body problem, following the phenomenologists, is a mind/mind problem. If for the materialists, it is only a body/body problem.

The problem of my interest in this problem is: I have to explain why I do not care about the traditional mind/body problem, and worse still, what is exactly the "mind/lived body" problem.

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