RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BODY-MIND CON- 



VERSY.i 



The present article does uot attempt to review with any degree of 

 completeness the field indicated by the title. Comprehensive digests 

 have been given in the works by Professors Strong and Busse quoted 

 below and. to avoid misunderstanding, the writer desires to avow 

 his purpose in advance, viz. i) to submit to somewhat careful 

 analysis the original view expressed in Dr. Strong's book ; 2) to 

 bring into effective contrast therewith those statements of recent writers 

 which may prove illuminating, and 3) to attempt a critical and con- 

 structive statement of the solution of this general problem offered by 

 Dynamic Realism. By this frank avowal the reader may be prepared 

 to excuse the anomaly that this paper may seem as much a pleading 

 as a review. 



At the outset we can do no less than express our hearty recogni- 

 tion of the merit of Dr. Strong's work, which, for clearness of pre- 

 sentation, thoroughness of research, as well as candor and courage of 

 treatment, is entirely admirable. Its usefulness will be especially ap- 

 parent to those who find greatest difficulty in agreeing with all of the 

 conclusions. It is assumed that the reader of these lines will also 

 peruse the book and thus absolve us from the obligation of making a 

 comprehensive digest of the contents, which consist so largely of the 

 statement of conflicting theories as to leave too small space for a con- 



' C. A. Strong. Why the Mind Has a Body. New York, Macmillan, 

 1903. 



LuDWiG BussE. Geist und Korper. Leipzig, 1903. 



J. Mark Baldwin. Mind and Body from the Genetic Point of View. 

 Princeton Contributions, III, 2, Dec, 1903. 



H. Heath Bawden. The Functional Theory of Parallelism. Philos. Rev. 

 Xn, 3, 1903. 



. Necessity from Standpoint of Scientific Method of a Re- 

 construction of the Ideas of Psychical and Physical. Journ. Philos. Psych. Sci. 

 Methods, I, 3, 1904. 



Hartley B. Alexander. The Concept of Consciousness. Journ. Philos. 

 Psych. Sci. Methods, I, 5. 



WiLLLA.M James. Human Immortality, 1900. 



\V. Ostwald. The Philosophical Meaning of Energy. Internal. Quart., 

 VII, 2, 1903. 



