Burkhardt Hans, Imaguire Guido
Theor Med Bioeth. 2002;23(2):135-50. doi: 10.1023/a:1020374913001.
In this paper we analyse some misleading theses concerning the old controversy over the relation between mind and body presented in contemporary medical literature. We undertake an epistemological clarification of the axiomatic structure of medical methods. This clarification, in turn, requires a precise philosophical explanation of the presupposed concepts. This analysis will establish two results: (1) that the mind-body dualism cannot be understood as a kind of biological variation of the subject-object dichotomy in physics, and (2) that the thesis of the incompatibility between somatic and psychosomatic medicine held by naturalists and others lacks solid epistemological foundation.
在本文中，我们分析了当代医学文献中有关身心关系这一古老争议的一些误导性论点。我们对医学方法的公理结构进行了认识论上的澄清。反过来，这种澄清需要对预设概念进行精确的哲学解释。这一分析将得出两个结果：（1）身心二元论不能被理解为物理学中主客二分法的一种生物学变体；（2）自然主义者及其他一些人所持的躯体医学与身心医学不相容的论点缺乏坚实的认识论基础。
