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Aphasia - the Worm's Eye View of a Philosophic Patient and the Medical Establishment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Edwin Alexander
Edwin Alexander*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

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If you were trained as a philosopher and were suddenly bereft of speech, writing and reading, how would you feel? Would you feel a sensation of death, or Nirvana, or unconscious or conscious loss of control? Would you feel scientifically objective, or full of Aristotelian wonder? Would you think you were having a supernatural experience?

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 38 , Issue 150 , June 1990 , pp. 1 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

Footnotes

*

With the collaboration of Carroll Bishop.

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