Aug 19, 2003 · Dualism usually enters philosophy as a response to the mind-body problem, where its main competitor is materialism, the form of monism that says that mind and body are both ultimately …

Aug 19, 2003 · Dualism contrasts with monism, which is the theory that there is only one fundamental kind, category of thing or principle; and, rather less commonly, with pluralism, which is the view that …

In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical—or mind and body or mind and brain—are, in some sense, radically different kinds of thing.

May 23, 2001 · The worry with dualism—the view that mind and matter are fundamentally different kinds of thing—is that it leaves us with a radically disunified picture of nature, and the deep difficulty of …

Jan 12, 2000 · Smart used the words ‘topic neutral’ in the narrower sense of being neutral between physicalism and dualism. For example ‘going on’, ‘occurring’, ‘intermittent’, ‘waxing’, ‘waning’ are …

Jan 18, 1999 · For now, it should be noted that the argument stated in the previous two paragraphs is not supposed to be an argument for dualism, but only for adopting epiphenomenalism, once dualism …

Jun 18, 2004 · Substance dualism, such as traditional Cartesian dualism (Descartes 1644), asserts the existence of both physical and non-physical substances. Such theories entail the existence of non …

Dec 18, 2003 · Appealing to this fact, Hart (1988) advances a substance dualism and, combining it with a transference theory of causation (§2.1), argues that psychophysical causation consists in the …

Sep 22, 1997 · Leibniz’s rejection of materialist conceptions of the mind was coupled with a strong opposition to dualistic views concerning the relationship between mind and body, particularly the …

Feb 13, 2001 · To see that it is not sufficient, consider the variety of dualism usually called property dualism. Property dualism says that (a) every particular is a physical particular but (b) some …