The Idiom of Contemporary thought

Abstract

SINCE the time of Descartes probably the most fundamental problem of philosophy, and indeed of Western thought, has been the relationship of the world around us to our experience of it. The countless efforts which have been made to bridge the gap that seems to yawn between them have concentrated above all on the body-mind relationship, to which no generally acceptable solution appears yet to have been recognized. But recently the very formulation of the problem has been questioned.