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Are there convincing arguments for dualism?
There are several reasons for thinking that the mental and the physical are essentially separate and fundamentally different. Should we be convinced by any of them?
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Imagine that you look at yourself as a cat, what do you think of your own behavior?
I recently thought very much about the life of mammals who live in our cities, such as cats, and dogs.
To see if I will find a philosophy in this, because, as we know, the Nature Is Our Best Teacher!....
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Isn't Mind–body dualism the result of a Complex Universe?
Mind–body dualism, or mind–body duality, is a view in the philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical, or that the mind and body are distinct and separable.
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If morality comes from our body, why does it contradict it?
Where does morality come from? One possible answer is that morality, as everything else, is a byproduct of interactions between physical matter. The same interactions that came together to produce our ...
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How can Brie Gertler's disembodiment argument account for the minds of others?
I'm currently reading Brie Gertler's essay In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism. She uses Descartes' conceivability argument to make her own disembodiment argument. For example, she says someone can ...
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How did Wittgenstein reject the Cogito or Cartesian dualism? Can I get the specific sources?
I have heard of the fact that Wittgenstein rejected Cartesianism by the Private Language Argument. But the connections are not clear for me. Also I'd like to know if there is any other piece of ...
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Evidence Against Dualism from Neuroscience
In this video, Patricia Churchland announced that the data from neuroscience has made it clear that there is no soul, immaterial mind, or other "spooky stuff." I was wondering if anyone is aware of a ...
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About ideologies or movements for an unwanted werewolf, is Dualism? [Spanish accepted] [closed]
Good Day, how are you?
Today I want to ask about philosophical ideologies or movements that can help me understand what is happening behind a character that I want to analyze.
First a bit of ...
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Hubert Dreyfus & Heidegger - is Heidegger a dualist?
Heidegger rejects Cartesian dualism... but this video with Hubert Dreyfus confuses me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G24JBUh4yVg
At 9:00, he implies that according to Heidegger, physics can't ...
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What is the difference between Interactionism and Cartesian Dualism?
I read that Cartesian Dualism is a subtype of Interactionism but I'm still confused. Can somebody help me to clear up this matter?
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Is there a flaw in Descartes' "clear and distinct" argument?
Is there a flaw in Descartes' "clear and distinct" argument regarding the separation of mind and body? I think that there is a flaw in the argument. I got this idea from an online lecture. Here is my ...
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Are there any philosophical writings/works about Fourier transforms?
I am interested in reading about possible meaning and implications of the time-frequency duality in Fourier transforms and the uncertainty principle (not necessarily the usually discussed Heisenberg ...
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Scientific consensus about the soul [closed]
I've read a bit of Julien Musolino's book “The Soul Fallacy” in which he claims that there is a scientific consensus that the soul does not exist.
Is his view correct?
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Is the Phaedo relevant to a materialist?
I've just finished reading the Phaedo, and I'm wondering if one does not buy into the mind/body dualism arguments that Socrates advances in the dialogue, is there still anything to learned from it? Is ...
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Has Descartes interpreted the rational mind as res cogitans?
I've read several description of the Descartes' dualism but I'm still not really sure: Does Descartes comprehend the human rational mind, human psychology - the part of thinking that is not ...
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Physicalism versus dualism: is it reasonable to assign a burden of proof to one party?
I've been watching some video lectures online, and in some of the videos, the professor argues essentially as follows:
Both the dualist and the physicalist believe in the body. This is
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Is materialism really an ontological position or is it an epistemic one?
In this post, Is a materialist afterlife possible? , the OP asks if the concept of afterlife as accepted in Christianity (and presumably other religions) is compatible with materialism. Presumably ...
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For Kierkegaard, how does being "animal" and "rational" compel us to invent meaning?
I'm working through "Alienation and Freedom" by Richard Schmitt right now.
In explaining alienation and it's precondition, he posits:
"The need for infusing one's life with meaning arises, as ...
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How did Kant "undermine the soul"?
In the beginning of William James' 1904 paper "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?" he states the following:
At first, 'spirit and matter,' 'soul and body,' stood for a pair of equipollent substances quite ...
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What are the best arguments against substance dualism? [closed]
As I understand it, substance dualism is a position that holds that current physics and neuroscience cannot account for certain properties of qualia and the mind, implying the existence of some other ...
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Does neurorealism imply a fear of Cartesian dualism that philosophy should rightly address? [closed]
Recently Nature published a computer-generated image of the brain sprinkled with colorful words representing a semantic map, i.e., parts of the brain cortex that responded to various spoken words ...
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Isn't a brain not just another vat?
The brain in the vat scenario seems unfinished to me: Let say we come to the conclusion that we are, or bettter I am a brain in a vat and all you are simulated by an external evil(?) demon. Ok, this ...
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What would non-reductive physicalists say about the mind and teleportation? [closed]
Non-reductive physicalists have a view in dualism that creates an idea of mental properties that can be mapped to neurobiological properties, but said mental properties are not ontologically reduced ...
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Are there philosophies that call for things which are not mind nor matter?
Physicalism is the idea that everything is matter. Idealism is the idea that everything is made up of a mental substance. Dualism claims that there are both matter and mind in the universe.
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What is substance dualism, it is required for either belief in a life after death or arguments for life after death?
Many traditional(philosophical and empirical ) arguments for life after death are based on substance dualism. What is substance dualism? is it necessarily required for either in a life after death or ...
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Quantum entanglement and its implications for modern science [closed]
In light of the now undisputed existence of the phenomenon of quantum entanglement and it's implications, can any field of science (e.g. Neuroscience and, specifically, the study of consciousness) ...
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Would a truly objective system of ethics amount to a form of dualism?
Per Hume's is-ought problem, most people consider ethical questions to be independent of empirical facts.
The physicalist/materialist world-view is based on the idea that only thing that exists are ...
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What are the problems with the argument for the mind-body dualism from immateriality of thoughts?
I have started studying philosophy of mind and I am currently reading an introduction to the field. The first topic that is presented in the book is dualism of the Cartesian brand, and the case for it ...
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How is non-reductive materialism different from dualism?
Non-reductive materialism (or materialism) is considered a from of monism, in the sense that ontologically everything is considered to be made of physical substances. It is non-reductive only in that ...
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Is any aspect of the supernatural testable? What level of proof is possible for the supernatural?
Assume the supernatural does exist, and consists of beings/forces that can interact with our natural universe in ways that are contrary to the natural laws of this universe (at least as we know them).
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What is the difference between functionalism and property dualism?
Functionalism and property dualism are both physicalist theories of the mind in that they don't admit any substances other than physical substance.
Property dualism holds that mental states are non-...
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Am I not a material thing?
I can not doubt that I exist. I can doubt that any material thing exists. Therefore, I am not a material thing
This is a redux of Descartes's modal argument for dualism (e.g. in second and sixth ...
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The demarcation problem and the materialism/dualism debate?
Presumably the end game of dualist philosophers is to definitively prove the existence of ontologically separate mental states which cannot be reduced to brain states. If they succeed in doing so, ...
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Logical Atomism and the divisibility of ideas?
Crucial to DesCartes' argument for dualism, is that matter and mind are different because matter has extension and thoughts don't. Matter can be divided (infinitely?) into smaller parts, which will ...
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Have Descartes' arguments for dualism been entirely refuted by modern neuroscience and information theory?
From the IEP article on Dualism:
Decartes argues that the mind is indivisible because it lacks extension. The body, as an object that takes up space, can always be divided (at least conceptually), ...
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About Criticism of Dualtistic Theories
According to my knowledge, a main criticism to dualistic theories is that they give the mind a special characteristic in contrast to matter.
But is this true, since matter is also split up in several ...
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How do modern dualists explain the mind-body interaction?
A serious challenge for dualism is explaining how mind and body interact if they are made of ontologically different substances, and more specifically how mental phenomena can causally drive bodily ...
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Are you familiar with a similar argument against the (nomological) supervenience of the mental on the physical?
The SEP article on supervenience claims "Just about everyone, even a Cartesian dualist, believes some version of this supervenience claim [that the mental nomologically supervenes on the physical]." ...
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Does dualism in conjunction with strong AI imply pan-psychism?
Let's assume that at some hypothetical point in the future, we arrive at two results:
Based on results like DesCartes or Kripke's, philosophers and logicians arrive at a conclusive proof in favor of ...
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Contemporary proponents of Cartesian dualism
I have to find examples of contemporary philosophers who accept Cartesian dualism. Who would be the most important proponent? While philosophers who reject physicalism (e.g. David Chalmers, Thomas ...
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Is there another name for a philosophical analog to gestalt psychology?
I have been working on a philosophical approach modeling the mind (in dualist terms, the non-physical portion of the Self) as a network of smaller minds structured to operate together. This seems to ...
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Can someone be an atheist and subscribe to substance dualism at the same time?
I consider myself to be firmly in the atheist camp. None of the arguments for the existence of a higher being or prime mover convince me, let alone attempts at proving the existence of the old God of ...
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Would a clone of myself be a different person than myself? [closed]
don't know if anyone will read this, but just a random thought I had:
Try to imagine the following: you wake up in a hospital bed, with no recollection of how you got there. You look over at the bed ...
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"How does an immaterial activity (eg thinking a thought) inform a material medium (eg the brain) in which it is manifested?" [closed]
I do not think this question can be answered adequately unless the thinker takes a 'moral realist' (moral reality) position - defined as a reality independent of the Mind.
A Thought is an "immaterial ...
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If materialism is true, then what accounts for pleasure and pain?
[I went and wrote a long answer to a question that was in the interim deleted, so rather than waste that, I thought I'd do my best to reproduce it here. Credit to Micheal Lee for the original, some ...
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How do res cogitans and res extensa interact?
In all religions that ever existed, there is a soul and a God - two intangible things. From physics we know that there is no difference between a particle without the electrical charge, mass and ...
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Dualism appears in many places. Is there a theory why?
Big Questions often resolve themselves into two camps, such as between rationalism and empiricism. This happens when some sticking point is reached that cannot be resolved.
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Is there an economic philosophy that is dualistic?
In classical economics its obvious that the philosophical model followed is inspired by both physics in its reductionism and biology to a primary notion - that of self-interest. This self-interest ...
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On non-duality: Is there really such a thing as evil? [closed]
The non-duality philosophy idea seems to be that polarity is an illusion, because in reality everything is connected and whole. Even when things seem separated they are still connected and depend on ...
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Concepts of state and transition as used by Kierkegaard
While reading Søren Kierkegaard's "The Concept of Anxiety", I asked myself how much of the temporal interpretation of dialectic and the interaction between state and transition (leap) are original to ...
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