2170 | Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B] |
1514 | Early thinkers concentrate on the soul but ignore the body, as if it didn't matter what body received the soul [Aristotle] |
21402 | Incorporeal substances can't do anything, and can't be acted upon either [Zeno of Citium, by Cicero] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
2628 | Why would mind mix with matter if it didn't need it? [Cicero] |
3625 | The 'thinking thing' may be the physical basis of the mind [Hobbes on Descartes] |
2552 | Knowing different aspects of brain/mind doesn't make them different [Rorty on Descartes] |
4305 | Descartes gives no clear criterion for individuating mental substances [Cottingham on Descartes] |
4861 | Does Descartes have a clear conception of how mind unites with body? [Spinoza on Descartes] |
6540 | Even Descartes may concede that mental supervenes on neuroanatomical [Lycan on Descartes] |
7733 | Superman's strength is indubitable, Clark Kent's is doubtful, so they are not the same? [Maslin on Descartes] |
23222 | A soul with physical extension is more likely than an immaterial soul that moves bodies [Elizabeth] |
4308 | Mind and body are one thing, seen sometimes as thought and sometimes as extension [Spinoza] |
4846 | We are incapable of formulating an idea which excludes the existence of our body [Spinoza] |
7840 | For all we know, an omnipotent being might have enabled material beings to think [Locke] |
7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
5589 | Neither materialism nor spiritualism can reveal the separate existence of the soul [Kant] |
5630 | Our concept of an incorporeal nature is merely negative [Kant] |
19596 | The whole body is involved in the formation of thoughts [Novalis] |
14867 | It is just madness to think that the mind is supernatural (or even divine!) [Nietzsche] |
5171 | The supposed 'gulf' between mind and matter is based on the senseless concept of 'substances' [Ayer] |
3359 | Cartesian dualism fails because it can't explain mental causation [Kim] |
7365 | Dualism wallows in mystery, and to accept it is to give up [Dennett] |
3513 | How does a dualist mind represent, exist outside space, and be transparent to itself? [Papineau] |
4982 | Dualism implies some brain events with no physical cause, and others with no physical effect [Kirk,R] |
2955 | If mental events occur in time, then relativity says they are in space [Lockwood] |
5343 | People largely came to believe in dualism because it made human agents free [Flanagan] |
6527 | If energy in the brain disappears into thin air, this breaches physical conservation laws [Lycan] |
6528 | In lower animals, psychology is continuous with chemistry, and humans are continuous with animals [Lycan] |
4912 | Out-of-body experiences may be due to temporary loss of proprioception [Carter,R] |