Theory associated primarily with William James (1842-1910), who named it, and Bertrand Russell (1872-1970); though it has affinities to the views of Ernst Mach (1838-1916), Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and others.
Neutral monism says that mind and matter can both be reduced to a single type of thing, sometimes called ‘neutral stuff’.
This took the form of sensations or experiences, which constituted minds if thought of as arranged in one way, and matter if in another.
Source:
B Russell, The Analysis of Mind (1921)
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived
- 2.2 The primacy of perception: Towards a neutral monism (Library of theoria)
- 2.3 Philosophy of Mind (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
- 2.4 The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived by Erik C. Banks (2014-10-27)
- 2.5 The Philosophy of Affordances (New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
- 2.6 The Philosophy of Logical Atomism: A Centenary Reappraisal (History of Analytic Philosophy)
- 2.7 An Outline of Philosophy (Routledge Classics)
- 2.8 Russell (The Routledge Philosophers)
- 2.9 Direct versus Indirect Realism: A Neurophilosophical Debate on Consciousness
- 2.10 Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript (Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell)
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