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Idealism and materialism start from familiar but faulty conceptions of mind and matter.
Buddhist conceptions of mind evolved from early attempts to offer a systematic account of human experience as described in the large body of discourses attributed to the Buddha.
Now, perhaps such dualistic conceptions of mind and nature have lost some credibility in the present philosophical and scientific climates (however, are they really any less credible than 'overdetermining' dualism, which on this view would be Davidson's central opponent?).
This seems to reject both causal determinist and epiphenomenalist conceptions of mind.
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In any case, Wilson's conception of mind clearly has also taken on the properties of the soul, at least as that entity is understood by those eager to insist that there is no ghost in the machine.
An obvious limitation of the container conception of mind is that it is a rigidly static one: content can be added or taken away, but the container essentially stays the same.
The most conspicuous feature of James's writings on pragmatism is the dominant place given to considerations of value, worth, and satisfaction consequences of his teleological (purposive) conception of mind (as in his Principles of Psychology [1890]).
Although Spinoza generally accepted Descartes's physics, he rejected Cartesian metaphysics, objecting to three features: the transcendence of God, the conception of mind as a "mental substance" radically distinct from matter (see mind-body dualism), and the ascription of free will both to God and to human beings.
The cluster of causal problems arising from the Cartesian conception of mind is The Problem of Interaction.
Desgabets also subscribed to the Cartesian conception of mind as an immaterial substance whose essence is thought.
The Seele of Anthropology should therefore not be confused with the modern subjective conception of mind, as exemplified by Descartes and other early modern philosophers.
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