in this paper i explore surprising parallels in the arguments between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind in india and the west. in particular, i compare the nyaya school of india with cartesian dualism and its western defenders and the carvaka school of india with contemporary western materialists.

We call attention to certain cases of epistemic akrasia, arguing that they support belief-credence dualism. Belief-credence dualism is the view belief and credence are irreducible, equally fundamental attitudes. Consider case an agent who believes p, has low in thus shouldn’t believe p. argue dualists, as opposed belief-firsters (who say reduces belief) credence-firsters credence) can best expl...

In the last two decades the classical post-Cartesian mind-body dualism (which by many scientist and philosophers is considered to be old-fashioned and overcome by modern monism of materialism) seems to be prevailed by a kind of body-brain dualism propagated by modern neurophysiology and neurophilosophy. The human embryo however seems to challenge this false monism of “We are our brain.” The phe...

Quote: Originally Posted by TecnoTut Functionalism, whether it be machine functionalism, teleofunctionalism, or just plain old fashioned functionalism, merely describes what mental properties do, not what mental properties are ... Although functionalists associate themselves with materialistic monism (that is, the view that only material things exist), there is a dualism lurking beneath the sur...

In recent papers, Martine Nida-Rümelin (NR) has argued for a position she calls subject-body dualism on the basis of three distinct arguments. One is based on reflection on the emergence of phenomenal consciousness (Nida-Rümelin 2010b). One is based on reflection on our treatment of conscious subjects as active (Nida-Rümelin 2006). One is based on reflection on intelligible possibilities of tra...

The conceptual design of most computer-based information systems reflects a dualism of technology. During the development phase, part of the work-domain related knowledge is formalized and encoded in the software, making it difficult for users to reflect on and use this knowledge. This design/use-dualism contributes to the deterioration of the interpretive flexibility of information systems. We...

Cognitive theories of religion have postulated several cognitive biases that predispose human minds towards religious belief. However, to date, these hypotheses have not been tested simultaneously and in relation to each other, using an individual difference approach. We used a path model to assess the extent to which several interacting cognitive tendencies, namely mentalizing, mind body duali...