dualist theories
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- Created on: 11-10-18 21:58
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- DUALIST THEORIES
- minds exist and are not identical to bodies or to parts of bodies
- 'I' cannot be identified with my physical form
- PROPERTY DUALISM
- PROPERTY = quality of a substance which depends for its existence on the substance
- brain has a special set of non-physical properties alongside it's ordinary properties
- mental phenomena
- mental properties are emergent
- irreducible
- philosophical zombies
- Mary argument
- SUBSTANCE DUALISM
- SUBSTANCE = a thing that can exist in it's own and doesn't depend on anything else for its existence
- both mind and body can exist independently of each other
- bodies are by their nature divisible
- they have extention
- indivisibility argument
- SUBSTANCE = a thing that can exist in it's own and doesn't depend on anything else for its existence
- EPIPHENOMENALIST DUALISM
- minds exist and are not identical to bodies or to parts of bodies
- conceivability argument
- indivisibility argument
- masked man fallacy
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