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So, to restate somewhat more clearly: the Phaedo's conception of soul is narrower than our concept of mind in the following way.
However, it may be worth insisting once more that we should not disregard the fact that the conception of the soul that features in the Republic is broader than our concept of mind, in that it continues to be part of this conception that it is soul that accounts for the life of the relevant ensouled organism.
In The Concept of Mind (1949), for example, he sought to explain what he called the 'category-mistake' involved in talk of the mind as a kind of 'Ghost in the Machine'.
For this concept of mind, Anaxagoras was commended by Aristotle.
Ryle's first book, The Concept of Mind (1949), is considered a modern classic.
Several assumptions are indispensible to any discussion of the concept of mind.
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The 17th-century philosopher René Descartes proposed the concept of mind-body dualism, which implied that human behaviour could be understood as resulting from both a free, rational soul and from automatic, nonrational processes of the body.
For if all questions of mind-independent existence were external, then rejecting the intelligibility of external questions as Carnap does would also be to reject the concept of mind-independent existence, so that metaphysical realism would have been rendered untenable.
2. Minding the Body, Mending the Mind by Joan Borysenko This book introduced me to the concept of mind-body medicine and gave me a new vocabulary of terms like "relaxation response".
If you expand the discussion to the concepts of mind and brain, however, then there are parallels to Buddhist concepts of mind and vital energies.
In Designing with Blends, Manuel Imaz and David Benyon show how these new metaphors and concepts of mind allow us to discover new aspects of HCI-SE.
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