. The auther cocerns the explanation of mind_body relation.He divides the theories into two catagories: non_dualistic and dualistic. He then provides a survey of the main points mentioned in post renaissance Europe down to the present, with special regard to post_Cartesian philosophers. Cartesian philosophy escalated the dualistic character of mind and body up to its apex. He was slated by Plato,with its religions aspect strengthened by Christion philosophy. Descartes's theory in the relation of mind to body raised a number of objectsagainst itself, e.g. the refutation of matter_energy rule, and that of originalities of cause and effect. Of the dualistic views, the most noted one is that of Malbranche who holds that mind and body incidents do not have any causal effect on each other; rather, the incidence of any happening or out in any field serves as a cause for God's creatoin of something like that somewhere else. However, the main objction to this theory is of the causal effects of mind and and body on one another despite their differenc. The author then proceeds to mention some other theories, e. g. a priori coordination, minor phenomena, idealism, behaviuorism, referential sameness, pragmatism, eomputer model of mind, and the theory of riddles
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