Firing another salvo in the on-going monism-dualism debate, Joel B. Green in his new book Body, Soul, and Human Life, presents his ontological monism, a rebuttal against anthropological dualism in general and against the holistic dualism in Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life by John W. Cooper in particular. Green’s anthropological monism, which “coheres well with Nancey Murphy’s argument . . . an...

Property dualism and the merits of solutions to the mind-body problem: a reply to Strawson. Property Dualism and the Merits of Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem A Reply to Strawson

We review results which have been obtained in the last few years on the topic whether various measures of physical interest, deened on lattice systems, have the Gibbs property or not. Most of the measures we consider occur either within renormalization-group theory or within models of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. In renormalization-group theory examples we discuss in particular the un...

We examined lay people's conceptions about the relationship between mind and body and their correlates. In Study 1, a web survey (N = 850) of reflective dualistic, emergentistic, and monistic perceptions of the mind-body relationship, afterlife beliefs (i.e., common sense dualism), religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and ontological confusions about physical, biological, and psychological phenomen...

The problem of consciousness should eventually receive a scientific solution, but there are a number of scientific and philosophical obstacles along the way. I offer solutions to the philosophical problems and proposals for approaching the scientific problems.

Cartesian dualism has been viewed by medical theorists to be one of the chief causes of a reductionist/mechanistic treatment of the patient. Although I aver that Cartesian dualism is one culprit for the misapprehension of the genuine treatment of patients in terms of both mind and body, I argue that interactive dualism which stresses the interaction of mind and body is essential to treat patien...