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Pols, Edward

 
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Sinopsis

In this brilliant analysis of mind-body problems Edward Pols adds new dimen­sions to the discussion of basic issues.

 

The prisoner is Socrates, who, in a se­ries of actions involving moral decisions, finds himself under sentence of death, and who has now decided to undergo the sentence rather than accept the opportuni­ty to escape provided by powerful friends. Pols takes as his point of departure Socrates’ naïve statement of the contrast be­tween a scientific analysis of a moral action and the point of view taken by the agent himself, and his rejection of the adequacy of the scientific analysis.

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Edward Pols is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the department at Bowdoin College.

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