Abstract

At the end of this impressive work, Michael Lockwood observes: "Philosophers, especially British philosophers tend, in my experience, to combine a rather complacent ignorance of science with an excessive respect for it". The author himself seems to be a definite exception to this generalization, since he reports that he has spent more than twenty years "thinking about the mind body problem and the interpretation of quantum mechanics" and displays a critical attitude toward statements based on scientific research. This book outlines a common interpretive framework that may be able to resolve tensions that have long characterized understandings of human mental functioning and of microphysics. The work is addressed to both philosophers and scientists.