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Cartesian dualism
Also known as: Cartesian dualists, Cartesian dualist
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The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1 theologycommons.gcu.edu Sep 2, 2025 7 facts
referenceCartesian dualism defines the human person as a soul in a physical shell, where the person is identical to the soul, and the soul is identical to the mind.
perspectiveThe author of 'The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1' argues that panpsychists tend to make a similar mistake as Cartesian dualists by assuming that consciousness is fundamental.
claimIn Cartesian dualism, the body is viewed as a machine that runs without the aid of the soul, meaning the soul does not provide life to the body.
claimCartesian dualism posits that the soul can continue to live on in a disembodied state after the body dies.
claimThe author of 'The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1' argues that distinguishing between things that are fundamentally conscious and things that are not risks committing to Cartesian dualism.
claimThe 'Bodily Soul' view posits that the body and mind are two different modes of the same unified being that possesses both mental and physical properties, making the distinction between them less stark than in Cartesian dualism.
perspectiveChristian philosophers almost universally accept that Cartesian dualism, a form of substance dualism, is incompatible with Christianity because it creates too hard of a distinction between the physical and non-physical.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 3 facts
perspectiveThe mind-body problem represents an ontological bottleneck that science must resolve to transcend the limitations inherited from Cartesian dualism.
claimThe asymmetry between the hard problem of consciousness and the hard problem of the physical is a result of the representational model implied by Cartesian dualism.
claimCartesian dualism has been identified as the most central problem of modern science and the modern/colonial worldview due to its ontological dualism, which contributes to the 'Great Divide' between mind and body, subject and object, human and non-human, culture and nature, humanities and natural sciences, and Us and Them.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 2 facts
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 2 facts
claimP.F. Strawson argues that Cartesian dualism is ruled out because ascribing states of consciousness to others requires the ability to identify others, which is impossible with pure subjects of experience or Cartesian egos.
claimP.F. Strawson argues that the concept of a person is primitive, contrasting this position with Cartesian dualism and the 'no-ownership view'.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 2 facts
perspectivePanpsychism is considered a monist framework that avoids the interaction dilemma associated with Cartesian dualism and avoids the trivialization or elimination of consciousness found in some materialist models.
claimPanpsychism avoids the interaction problem of Cartesian substance dualism because it posits that mind and matter are not two independent substances, but rather two facets of the same thing.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
claimCartesian dualism involves a refusal to integrate the mind into the scientific picture of the physical world, instead accepting a remote relation between independent domains of matter and mind.
claimCartesian dualists believed that the nature of mind or consciousness was entirely distinct from physical nature, though they sometimes allowed for rare causal interaction between the two.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
claimThe Einsteinian equation E=MC² is used by some theorists to convert matter into energy to account for the origins of consciousness at both the quantum and material levels, a practice which is sometimes dismissed as classic Cartesian dualism.
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Apr 1, 2024 1 fact
claimWhile Cartesian dualism posits that a mind can exist independent of a body, most non-theological theorists discuss dualism under the assumption that consciousness depends on or supervenes on a physical substrate like the brain, as noted by Chalmers (2017b).
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
referenceJohn Foster authored the book 'The Immaterial Self: A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of Mind,' published by Routledge in 1991.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 1 fact
perspectiveDavid Chalmers prefers to remain neutral regarding the causal closure of the physical world to avoid conflating the irreducibility of consciousness with Cartesian dualism.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimSubstance dualism, such as traditional Cartesian dualism proposed by René Descartes in 1644, asserts the existence of both physical and non-physical substances, implying that consciousness inheres in non-physical minds or selves.
Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com Dec 11, 2019 1 fact
claimThe specific form of substance dualism defended by the author of the Capturing Christianity article is known as "Cartesian dualism," named after René Descartes.