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The Mind/Body Problem

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is This Thing That I Am?

The father of modern philosophy, eno what one of those labels. Antony su's given us very, very good resumeme and pointed out how important he was to others. He focussed attention on a central problem: What can be known with certainty? In his this famous work of his, which everybody reads when they study philosophy, the meditations. It seems to entrench the idea that mental stuff, thinking stuff, really is very, very different in its essence from physical stuff.

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