Answer by nir for How do modern dualists explain the mind-body interaction?
David Chalmers, who splits his time between being a property dualist and a panpsychist, addresses this problem in The Conscious Mind, in chapter 5 - The Paradox of Phenomenal JudgmentFor him the...
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Believe it or not, but the biggest challenge to dualism does not come from neuroscience or physiology, and in fact is shared with materialism, it is the threat of epiphenomenlism. Whether mental is...
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You ask about dualism, and then list as 'modern dualists' folks who are really idealists but that admit some aspect of 'property dualism' may or may not be true. Kripke's property dualism, and its...
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This big problem sprawls all over the place. In one sense, if we are meaningfully relating ideas about "mind" and "body" then we have already "homogenized" them into some sort of idealist monism....
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According to my observation it is rather seldom that dualists actually explain the interaction of the mind and body. Often they restrict themselves to criticizing the monist position, hereby calling on...
View ArticleHow do modern dualists explain the mind-body interaction?
A serious challenge for dualism is explaining how mind and body interact if they are made of ontologically different substances, and more specifically how mental phenomena can causally drive bodily...
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