Excerpt from Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 18: Containing the Papers Read Before the Society During the Thirty-Ninth Session, 1917-1918
I am very sensible of the honour which the Aristotelian Society has conferred on me in assigning to me the duty for the third time in succession of opening its Session with a Presidential Address. I have decided that the best response I can make is to offer a continuation of the studies on the special problem of philosophy, - the problem of mind and body, - which has formed the basis of the two previous addresses, the first which I entitled "The Moment of Experience," and the second, "The Problem of Recognition." To-night I propose to try to come to close quarters with the problem itself and discuss the nature of the interaction of mind and body.
We have acquired in the last two or three decades an enormous amount of new knowledge about the living body, and also about the mind or soul. The present war, with its hideous tale of injuries to the minds and bodies of men in the full prime of life, is adding every day something new to the growing sciences of physiology and psychology. Is there anything in this new knowledge which throws light on the old problem of the nature of the relation of soul and body? Can we now do what it has baffled philosophers for three centuries to do, offer an account of that relation which is not either inherently absurd or so extravagant as to be incredible? I think we can.
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