in the next several blogs I will be posting excerpts from the book written by john foster entitled the immaterial self: a defence of the cartesian dualist conception of the mind. foster is a fellow in philosophy at brasenose college, oxford.
the back cover includes the following: “dualism holds that the mind is wholly non-physical and that mental phenomena are not reducible to anything else. the immaterial self examines and defends this thesis, and in particular argues for its cartesian version, which assigns the non-physical ingredients of the mind to a non-physical subject. the book exposes the inadequacies of the materialist and reductionist accounts of the mind which have become so fashionable in recent years.”
foster’s writing is that of a philosopher, and the reading can be challenging. I recommend this resource to those who seek a “systematic and uncompromising” defense of the immateriality of the mind.