From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism
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A summary of the first half of the course
What is common to dualists is the view that some mental properties are properties no entirely physical thing could have. According to a substance dualist, certain mental properties that people have are properties that nothing that had any physical properties could have. Thus there are two different sorts of thing that do not overlap: things that have mental properties, and physical things. A pr...
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