The Mind and Consciousness, Part 1: Substance Dualism and Property Dualism

Intro to Philosophy — The Mind and Consciousness, Part 1: Substance Dualism and Property Dualism — Zachary Fruhling, Instructor — April 21, 2020

Topics: Theories of Consciousness, Min-Body Dualism (Substance Dualism and Property Dualism), Rene Descartes, David Chalmers and the Zombie Thought Experiment, George Berkeley and Idealism, Immanuel Kant and Transcendental Idealism, Materialism/Physicalism and Materialist Theories of Mind (Identity Theory, Behaviorism, Functionalism)

[Wolfgang_Reip]

Hello, thank you very much for the course! What about panpsychism?

[lavabeard]

property dualism is a type of monism. it's one substance with two separate kinds of properties. the dualisms common between them dont refer to the same thing, so it doesn't make sense to group them together.

[G.Bfit.]

Just starting this and noticed the mentioning of there being no theory which adequately explains things coherently and completely. In my view Dialetical Materialism does and looking at the thumbnail, it doesn't seem like this approach is even considered muchless addressed.

[jimmyfaulkner]

Where does dual-aspect monism fit into this Philosophy of Mind map?

[dominiks]

very good introduction to the topic. personally I think that property dualism is the correct view - while I do have a naturalistic world view, I find it baffling to think that consciousness is a physical property. it has to be something else - maybe, roughly like Chalmers suggests, there have to be certain psychophysical laws of nature, which fundamentally give rise to consciousness if a certain arrangement of matter occurs.

[Xcalator]

«All of the neuroscience is built around this problem» yeah right!!