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Descartes was a substance dualist. He believed that there were two kinds of substance: matter, of which the essential property is that it is spatially extended; and mind, of which the essential property is that it thinks.
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The Dualist is a national undergraduate philosophy journal published by Stanford University undergraduates. Its purpose is to offer students an opportunity to participate in a normally inaccessible part of academic life -- the production and publication of papers for general philosophical readership.
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Dualism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Descartes was a substance dualist. (As such, we will be mainly discussing substance dualism, and virtually ignoring property dualism.) ; Ryle, whose view we will be looking at later, famously characterized Descartes view as "The Ghost in the Machine".
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Some students have been curious about why I am a dualist, not an epiphenomenalist. I don't care which view you personally adopt; I encourage students to think critically for themselves. But as a matter of intellectual honesty and as "food for thought", I offer the following rather lengthy and technical essay.
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'' has a number of uses in the history of thinking. In a given domain of knowledge, the idea involves the existence of two fundamental classes of things, or principles, often in opposition to each other. ... ''Main Article: Theology ''; In , that work in polar opposition to each other. ... Both the Zoroastrian religion,
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Property dualists argue that mental states are irreducible attributes of brain states. For the property dualist, mental phenomena are non-physical properties of physical substances. Consciousness is perhaps the most widely recognized example of a non-physical property of physical substances.
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Mind-Body Dualism ... In contrast to Materialism, Dualism states that over and beyond the physical reality there is a psychic or spiritual reality, and that our beings are not limited to the body alone. There are a number of different forms of dualism; ... Religious or Supernatural Dualism...
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Richard Swinburne, however, disagrees with Parfit's theory. He states that a fundamental difficulty of the theory is that it commits Parfit to factual claims which could very well be false. ... Swinburne argues for the classical dualist theory, such that persons are comprised of both their bodies and their immaterial stuff1...
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