Questions tagged [dualism]
Dualism, at the most general level, posits that the mind is fundamentally different from the physical.
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Within the theory of "three categories worlds" (things with time/space properties, time but no space, neither space nor time) could we conceive a 4th?
I quote from a @Dcleve's post from today
"*Gottlieb Frege, Karl Popper, and Roger Penrose proposed that there are three primary categories of things in our universe:
Those things with time and ...
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What explanatory framework applies to dualistic interactionism?
The objects interacting are the soul and the body it is immediately connected to.
I understand that the nature of the relation between soul substance or divine substance and matter is open to ...
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For a non-physicalist, is there a simple and operational definition of "material" and "physical"?
Material dualists often want to make a distinction between a "material" and "immaterial" world, but I have never seen a working or operational definition for this binary ...
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Between Dualism and Idealism Which Framework could Better Satisfy the Scientific Criteria of Testability and Falsifiability?
The hard problem of consciousness, is widely taken to expose an explanatory gap between physical processes and phenomenal experience, thereby motivating non-physicalist ontologies such as dualism and ...
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Does psychoactivity reveal the mind's physical basis?
The ghost in the machine was coined in Gilbert Ryle's 1949 critique of Cartesian dualism.
If this ghost is considered like energy flowing around a material substrate, then via E = mc2 the ghost and ...
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Does true knowledge presuppose that we can distinguish between self-produced, arbitrary mental contents and contents imposed by a resistant reality? [closed]
And does this presupposition necessarily entail mental self-governance, or self-reference/attribution?
By “mental self-governance” (or self-reference/attribution) I mean the ability to be in control ...
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Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction problem?
Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction problem?
I'm not just talking about dualism here, but the main critique of dualism is that it's incompatible with the known laws ...
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Dualism and the Difference between Awareness and consciousness
My question is a very basic question because I am new to this topic.
What's the difference between awareness and consciousness in philosophy?
Is it right to conclude that Dualism differentiate between ...
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Dualism/triplism as duplicating/triplicating existences
The way I've seen dualism or triplism presented is that the realms are distinct AND that we can pin down which object belongs to which realm as a matter of first principles. For example, propositions (...
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What are the most accepted descriptions of physical/nonphysical dualism?
It has been pointed out, legitimately I think, that "nonphysicalism" covers a fairly wide scope of dualist (plus?) approaches to distinguishing the physical and non-physical. All that they ...
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Are there working models or theories of the non-physical that are pragmatically and empirically useful?
I'm prompted by Syed's question How do dualists define the non physical?. I also found a very similar question by Yechiam Weiss: What is the definition of physical? Is that definition clear enough to ...
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How do dualists define the non physical?
Saying something is “non-physical” is often taken as a negative definition: it tells us what it is not rather than what it is.
Without clear positive criteria or empirical markers, it’s difficult to ...
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Mary and dualists
Frank Jackson’s classic thought-experiment runs like this:
Mary is the world’s leading expert on the neurophysiology of vision, yet she has lived her entire life in a black-and-white room. Inside that ...
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Serious challenges to materialism or physicalism?
I'm a materialist and a physicalist myself, in general and about consciousness in particular. I find both very, very depressing, but frankly uncontestable.
I am, however, wondering whether there are ...
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Clarifying Chalmers argument against materialism about consciousness
If I understand the argument David Chalmers makes in The Conscious Mind or this article, he argues that:
a) We can imagine philosophical zombies
b) This is a good test of logical coherence
c) If there ...
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