Materialists criticism of Dualism

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  • Materialsts criticising DUalism
    • Dualists believe that the body is a vehicle for the soul and that there are seperate
    • We do not just notice our bodies are damaged, we feel it and it causes mental distress
    • Substance dualism cant explain how mental thoughts can cause physical response
      • eg mental decision to walk
      • Or how feelings of embarrassment can cause me physically to blush
    • No way of knowing that everybody else has a mind
      • All substance dualism creates is the 'problem of other minds'
    • Antony Flew argues that the soul is the behavior of a person nothing else
      • Materialist view
      • It is the indentity
      • No life after death because the physical body no longer has any behavior
    • Someone who is catching has to use mental judgments about right time and speed and also physical moving

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