Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth

The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasios Error and Descartes Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of neurologist Antonio Damasio. Gluck critiques the neutral monistic assertions found in Descartes Error and Looking for Spinoza from a philosophical perspective, advocating an adaptive theoryphysical monism in the natural sciences, dualism in the social sciences, and neutral monism in aesthetics. Glucks work is a significant and refreshing take on a historical debate.