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Recorded partly on location in a gymnasium, where a young athlete demonstrates complicated motor skills, this programme deals with the vexed philosophical problem of the relationship of the mind to... the body. Whilst Descartes' description is shown to be unsatisfactory, although it contains some useful insights, 'common sense' answers based on a brain-body description are equally unconvincing.
Recorded partly on location in a gymnasium, where a young athlete demonstrates complicated motor skills, this programme deals with the vexed philosophical problem of the relationship of the mind to... the body. Whilst Descartes' description is shown to be unsatisfactory, although it contains some useful insights, 'common sense' answers based on a brain-body description are equally unconvincing.
| Module code and title: | A313, Philosophical problems |
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| Item code: | A313; 01 |
| First transmission date: | 01-03-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Peter Walton |
| Contributors: | Sara Johnson-Perry; Tom Sorell |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Descartes, Rene,--1596-1650; Motor ability |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73743 |
| Production number: | FOUA083T |
| Videofinder number: | 1285 |
| Available to public: | no |
