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Ideas for Friedrich Schlegel, Melissus and Ren Descartes
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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The force by which we know things is spiritual, and quite distinct from the body [Descartes]
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I can deny my body and the world, but not my own existence [Descartes]
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Reason is universal in its responses, but a physical machine is constrained by its organs [Descartes]
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The mind is a non-extended thing which thinks [Descartes]
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Mind is not extended, unlike the body [Descartes]
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Descartes is a substance AND property dualist [Descartes, by Kim]
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The mind is utterly indivisible [Descartes]
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There are two ultimate classes of existence: thinking substance and extended substance [Descartes]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes]
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Interaction between mental and physical seems to violate the principle of conservation of energy [Rowlands on Descartes]
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Descartes discussed the interaction problem, and compared it with gravity [Descartes, by Lycan]
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The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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The 'thinking thing' may be the physical basis of the mind [Hobbes on Descartes]
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Knowing different aspects of brain/mind doesn't make them different [Rorty on Descartes]
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Descartes gives no clear criterion for individuating mental substances [Cottingham on Descartes]
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Does Descartes have a clear conception of how mind unites with body? [Spinoza on Descartes]
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Even Descartes may concede that mental supervenes on neuroanatomical [Lycan on Descartes]
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Superman's strength is indubitable, Clark Kent's is doubtful, so they are not the same? [Maslin on Descartes]
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