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• Regarding the three contenders I have enumerated, I shall call (1) Epiphenomenalism, Double-Aspect, or just Weak Dualism; (2) Interactionism, Radical or just Strong Dualism and (3) Monistic Materialism or Functionalism. ...
• Be that as it may, from our present point of view we can take it as just another affirmation of weak dualism, the dualism which denies any autonomy whatsoever to mind.
• Weak Dualism.
• Before we leave this weak form of dualism that we are calling 'epiphenomenalism' it is worth considering a position put forward by John Searle which he calls 'biological naturalism. ' This, he claims, avoids the absurdities of both materialism and epiphenomenalism but without making any concessions to dualism which he regards as anti-scientific. ...
• Strong Dualism.
• We must turn now to the only remaining valid alternative to epiphenomenalism, the radical dualism or interactionism that we called our second solution. ...
• The disadvantage of radical dualism, on the other hand, and it is serious enough to deter most contemporary theorists, is that there is no clear answer as to where the mind comes from and how it first becomes attached to the brain, be it in the fetus or the neonate. ...
• Two arguments have often been put forward by sophisticated critics who ought to know better, which purport to rule out radical dualism as a non-starter. ...
• It says something about the desperation of those who want to dismiss radical dualism that two such phony arguments should repeatedly be invoked by highly reputable philosophers who should know better. At all events, seeing that radical dualism cannot be refuted or wished away, we must now look elsewhere for evidence that may help us to decide between the respective merits of weak or strong dualism.
• If physicalism could be shown to be false then we would have to dismiss epiphenomenalism or weak dualism, and settle for interactionism, that is to say for strong or radical dualism.
• Weak dualism, as we have seen, is bound to be paradoxical and counter-intuitive while strong dualism remains shrouded in mystery. ...
• Dualism: A parapsychological perspective. ... ) The Case for Dualism. ...

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• Parapsychology and Radical Dualism.
• Having in a previous paper given my reasons for doubting whether there could be a physical explanation for psi, I now argue that, since this disposes of physicalism the existence of psi, if it does exist, leaves us with no viable option other than radical dualism.

• Encyclopedia >> dualism.
• The term dualism is the state of being dual, or having a twofold division. Dualism doctrine consists of two basic opposing elements. ...
• The term dualism has several uses:.
• In theology, dualism can refer to ditheism: the belief that there are two basic principles in the universe, usually personified as deities, that work in polar opposition to each other. ...
• Alternatively, dualism can mean the tendency of humans to perceive and understand the world as being divided into just two categories. ... In traditions such as Zen, a key to enlightenment is "overcoming" this sort of dualism, without merely substituting it with monism or pluralism.
• In orthodox Indian philosophy, on the other hand, monism is explicitly affirmed by advaita vedanta, while it is rejected in favor of the dualism or pluralism of Dvaita; other schools, such as Vishishtadvaita and bhedabheda try to find routes in between.
• Main Article: Mind dualism.
• In philosophy of mind, dualism is any of a narrow variety of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which are seen as totally different kinds of things. This type of dualism is sometimes referred to as "mind and body". ... See also Cartesian dualism, substance dualism, epiphenomenalism.
• In philosophy of science, dualism often refers to the dichotomy between the "subject" (the observer) and the "object" (the observed). Some critics of Western science see this kind of dualism as a fatal flaw in science. ...
• ''Dictionary of the History of ideas'': Dualism in Philosophy and Religion.
• In physics, dualism refers to media with properties that can be associated with the mechanics of two different phenomena. ...

• How Cartesian Dualism Might Have Been True.
• Moral: Cartesian Dualism isn't quite so outlandish and conceptually problematic as tends to be supposed.
• For a non-Cartesian form of dualism see my Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. ...

• Entry on "DUALISM" for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Dualism is the view that mental phenomena are, in some respect, nonphysical. ... On a weaker version of dualism, which contemporary thinkers find more acceptable, human beings are physical substances but have mental properties, and those properties aren't physical. This view is known as property dualism, or the dual-aspect theory. Several considerations appear to support dualism. ... There are also, however, reasons to resist dualism. ... Dualism, however, represents the mind as uniquely standing outside this unified physical picture. ... For these reasons and others, dualism is, despite various reasons advanced in its support, a theoretically uncomfortable position. 1 Mental and Physical Underlying dualism is the strong intuition that the ordinary functioning of people is of two fundamentally different kinds. ... This conclusion points to some form of dualism. ... It's worth stressing that dualism requires the mental and the physical to be mutually exclusive. ... Dualism implies that things are different in the case of the mind; that is, it implies that to capture what is distinctive about mental functioning, we must posit substances or properties that aren't physical.

• Paul Churchland on Dualism in Matter and Consciousness.
• Varieties of Dualism:.
•   Substance Dualism.
• Cartesian dualism matter:  extended in space (and does not think) .
• Popular dualism minds have no mass (or shape?) but do have location:  inside a body .
• Property Dualism.
• Epiphenomenalist property dualism .
• Interactionist property dualism.
•   Arguments for Dualism (and Responses).
• (3) it may be worth mentioning that many Christian theologians at least do not take their faith to imply dualism .
• addresses these later in the book, but notes now that dualism is in no better shape.
• Arguments against Dualism.
• explanatory impotence of dualism:  we know a lot about matter and its relation to consciousness; we know nothing about mind-stuff .

• WHY THE PROPERTY DUALISM ARGUMENT WON’T GO AWAY 3/25/00.
• The Property Dualism Argument.
• I shall now outline the property dualism argument,5 some points of which will receive further elaboration in subsequent sections. ...
• Thus, in order to satisfy (1)-(3), we are led to a dualism of second order properties. ...
• Since, however, there is nothing special about this local context, there is no principled way of avoiding eliminativism across the board, and this seems far too high a price for an objection to the property dualism argument.
• Brian Loar’s account of phenomenal states does not address the property dualism argument by name. ... Let us, then, follow the usual practice in calling such antiphysicalist arguments conceivability arguments and consider whether Loar’s criticism of the other members of this class are effective against the present argument for property dualism. ...
• (It should be noted at the outset that whereas the property dualism argument concerns the identity of token thick events, Loar’s discussion concerns the identity of properties. ...
• It would not, however, be an adequate characterization of the property dualism argument. ...
• As we have seen, the proponent of the property dualism argument begins with a commitment to the strong version of Frege’s Constraint (SVFC). ...
• The strong version of Frege’s Constraint does not force a dualism of properties upon us at any particular level. It requires only that there be some level at which there is such a dualism of properties. ...
• (If this were correct, the property dualism argument would obviously fail. ...
• If the referents we pick out in virtue of such alternative modes of presentation are nothing over and above their modes of presentation, we have antiphysicalism, and if this is not the case, we have the Frege problems (and hence the property dualism argument) all over again. ...
• An alternative to Loar’s direct reference reply to the property dualism argument has been proposed by Ned Block. ...
• But if this property were not itself given directly--if the property could be given to the subject in such first person demonstrative encounters under different nonrepresentational modes of presentation from those under which it was given in third person contexts, that would generate new versions of Frege’s problem and Block would have no answer to the property dualism argument. ...

• Wigner-esque Mind-Body Dualism and Libertarianism (1994).
• The proposal in question is that of Eugene Wigner; it is important that it be examined because its affirmation of mind-body dualism may easily be mistaken as scientific support for libertarianism. ... But does Wigner's mind-body dualism imply that our "decision-making faculty" is separate from the body?.
• The first question to ask is whether any kind of a mind-body dualism truly implies that the mind is not subject to determinism or randomness. ...

• Platonic Dualism.
• And dualism, the supposed separation of soul and body, has begun. ...
• "Platonic dualism describes a cosmos knowable only to the pure reason of the few so then had the right to rule over the many, as the heavens rule earth, as the soul rules the body, as the master rules the slave. ...

• Triad: Critique of Dualism, Support of Monism in Plato by Joseph A. ... This unbridgeability causes the greatest difficulty, for how can entities in ontologically separate worlds interact? This difficulty has typically led to solutions which deny ontological dualism and opt instead for a monism or a pluralism of idealism or of materialism. ... The function of the dialogue as a critique of dualism can been seen working again in some of the other dialogues. In Republic Book VII, Plato implicitly criticizes dualism when he corrects a previously accepted progression of science through numbers, geometry, and astronomy by inserting the study of three-dimensional objects after geometry and before astronomy. ... Going beyond a criticism of dualism, Plato's theory evinces a triadic structure that promises to ground itself in a first principle. ... The problem of dualism in Plato manifests when an attempt is made to understand how an object participates in its form. ...

• org Dualism.
• The term dualism has several uses: .
• In theology, dualism can refer to the belief that there are two basic principles in the universe, usually personified as gods, that work in opposition to each other. ...
• Alternatively, dualism can mean the tendency of humans to perceive and understand the world as being chunked into different categories. ... In traditions such as Zen, a key to enlightenment is overcoming this sort of dualism. ...
• In philosophy of mind, dualism refers to a narrow variety of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which are seen as totally different kinds of things. See Dualism (philosophy of mind). ...
• In philosophy of science, dualism often refers to the dichotomy between the "subject" (the observer) and the "object" (the observed). Some critics of Western science see this kind of dualism as a fatal flaw in science. ...

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