Axel Hägerström at the origins of the uppsala school
pp. 1383-1427
in: Enrico Pattaro, Corrado Roversi (eds), A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 12, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstract
The problem of consciousness became thorny from Descartes onward. His infamous interactionist dualism (Seager 2007, 9) between res cogitans (mind) and res extensa (matter) was at the origin of a host of philosophical problems and eventually gave rise to a number of different trends in epistemology and ontology, among which the two basic, all-embracing, and opposite kinds of monism, that is, philosophical idealism and philosophical realism.
