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'The Problem of the Soul', 'Meditations' and 'On Human Nature'
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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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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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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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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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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People largely came to believe in dualism because it made human agents free [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Behaviourism notoriously has nothing to say about mental causation [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism
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Cars and bodies obey principles of causation, without us knowing any 'strict laws' about them [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
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Physicalism doesn't deny that the essence of an experience is more than its neural realiser [Flanagan]
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