It was at a point when linguistics, cultural anthropology and continental philosophy were converging that philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed ‘language is the house of the truth of being.’ The ...

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking for dance in the legs. Both Cartesian dualism, with its insistence that the mind is separate from the body, and the contemporary dogma that that ...

My relationship to athleticism has changed pretty drastically in the last year. At some point, I began looking at my habits and decided I wanted a change. Swimming, biking and especially weightlifting ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

The mind–body problem in philosophy examines the relationship between mind and matter, and in particular the relationship between consciousness and the brain. The problem was famously addressed by ...