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    Comments on William Jaworski’s Essay (2018) "Psychology Without A Mental-Physical Dichotomy"

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    William Jaworski considers the modern mental-physical dichotomy from a Neo-Aristotelian point of view. His article appears in “Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives On Contemporary Science” (edited by William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons and Nicholas Teh, 2018, Routledge Press, pages 261-292). This book belongs to the Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
    These comments take Jaworski’s argument one step further, by associating Neo-Aristotelian concepts with Peirce’s categorical framework, especially the category-based nested form. The resulting view may be called postmodern neoscholastic.
    Why the connection?
    Charles Peirce picks up where the Baroque scholastics of the seventeenth century leave off. These comments locate the mental-physical dichotomy within the noumenon, the thing itself, rather than psychological phenomena, based on the character of the Positivist’s and empirio-schematic judgments.
    ‘Body [substantiates] soul’ belongs to the noumenon of human psychology.
    A noumenon cannot be objectified as its phenomena.
    Phenomena are the observable and measurable manifestations of a noumenon.
    Ramifications become apparent as the commentary proceeds.

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    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateNov 27, 2020
    ISBN9781942824749
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      Comments on William Jaworski’s Essay (2018) Psychology Without A Mental-Physical Dichotomy

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2020

      Notes on Text

      This work comments on an essay by William Jaworski. The essay appears as chapter 11 in the text, Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, edited by William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons and Nicholas Teh (2018, Routledge, pages 261-292). My goal is to examine this article using the category-based nested form and other relational models within the tradition of Charles Peirce.

      ‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

      Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

      Recommended: Comments on Jacques Maritain’s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy, Comments on Marco Strango’s Essay (2017) Understanding Hylomorphic Dualism

      Table of Contents

      Mental-Physical Dichotomy?

      Hylomorphism

      Powers, Composition and Emergence

      Analyzing Malfunctions

      Hylomorphism and the Mental-Physical Dichotomy

      Mental-Physical Dichotomy?

      0001 William Jaworski opens with a question, asking (more or less) Is there a mental-physical dichotomy?

      If there is, then all sorts of mind-body problems arise.

      0002 For example, the idea of psychophysical emergence claims that the parts determine the properties of the whole. The human being is a whole. The human being is composed of physical particles.

      0003 So how does the human feel, perceive and think, when physical particles do not feel, perceive and think?

      How would any composite produce a feeling, perceiving and thinking whole?

      0004 But, what about neuroscience and molecular biology? Can they elucidate the content of one’s mind?

      0005 Jaworski tells of philosophers who reject the mental-physical dichotomy. John Dewey (1859-1952 AD) argues that the mind-body problem rests on flawed assumptions. Perhaps, the term,

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