Mind-body dualism and the compatibility of medical methods |
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Authors: | Burkhardt Hans Imaguire Guido |
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Institution: | (1) Am Egart 18, 82418 Murnau, Germany;(2) Notburgastr. 4b, 80639 München, Germany |
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Abstract: | In this paper we analyse some misleading theses concerning the oldcontroversy over the relation between mind and body presented incontemporary medical literature. We undertake an epistemologicalclarification of the axiomatic structure of medical methods. Thisclarification, in turn, requires a precise philosophical explanation ofthe presupposed concepts. This analysis will establish two results: (1)that the mind-body dualism cannot be understood as a kind of biologicalvariation of the subject-object dichotomy in physics, and (2) that thethesis of the incompatibility between somatic and psychosomatic medicineheld by naturalists and others lacks solid epistemologicalfoundation. |
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Keywords: | mind-body dualism axiomatic psychosomatic medical methodology ontology epistemology |
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