A Logician's Perspective on the Relation Between the Mind and Body

John P. Burgess received a doctorate in logic and methodology from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 1974, and has for almost fifty years since been on the faculty of the Philosophy Department at Princeton University, USA, serving for most of that time as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He also holds associated faculty status in mathematics and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published nine books and more than one-hundred papers on topics in logic and related areas of philosophy (among them computability theory, set theory, non-classical logics, mathematical existence and proof, the nature of truth, and the thought of Gottlob Frege and of Saul Kripke). In his latest work he turns his logician's eye towards debates on the mind-body problem, bringing an outsider's perspective to some much-debated issues, and aspiring to provide an irritant to stimulate re-examination of some points which have been taken for granted for too long.