Introduction
Abstract
In this chapter, we introduce a bunch of examples for thinking about how mind and body might be related to one another. We begin with an assumption common for many Westerners: mind and body are distinct entities. (You’ll see by the end of Chapter 3 that this distinction runs into a lot of difficulties.) We’ll see that we have good reasons to think that the slogan “mind over matter” is true. But we’ll also have lots of examples for how “matter over mind” is true. We’ll round things out by explaining why getting straight to these issues matters for newcomers to philosophy as well as veterans of philosophical reflection.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Embodied and Extended Cognition
Epistemology
Ethics
and Metaphysics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 3–6
- Publication date
- 11 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter