consciousness dualism

Question 1

property dualism

Answer 1

Property dualism describes a category of positions in the philosophy of mind which hold that, although the world is composed of just one kind of substance—the physical kind—there exist two distinct kinds of properties: physical properties and mental properties.

Question 2

substance dualism

Answer 2

Substance dualism, or Cartesian dualism, most famously defended by René Descartes, argues that there are two kinds of foundation: mental and physical. This philosophy states that the mental can exist outside of the body, and the body cannot think.

Question 3

interactionist dualism

Answer 3

the idea that mind and body, though separate, causally infulence each other (Descartes)

• interactionist dualism provides no serious theoretical advantages
• “ontologically demanding”
• transfer of problems, rather than solution
• has to account for mental causation