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Philosophy of Consciousness :: Materialism and Dualism :: Consciousness and Dualism

1.3a The Knowledge Argument [112]
1.3b Zombies and the Conceivability Argument [136]
1.3c Kripke's Modal Argument [46]
1.3d Arguments from Disembodiment [38]
1.3e Other Anti-Materialist Arguments [36]
1.3f Consciousness and Physicalism, Misc [30]
1.3g Consciousness and Dualism [32]
1.3h Metaphysics of Consciousness, Misc [57]
1.3i Mind-Body Problem, General [126]

See also:

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Banerjee, R.; Bhattacharya, A.; Genc, A. & Arora, B. M. (2006). Structure of twins in gaas nanowires grown by the vapour-liquid-solid process. Philosophical Magazine Letters 86 (12):807-816. (Google | More links)

Bennett, Karen (manuscript). Why I am not a dualist. (Google)

Birkett, Kirsten (2006). Conscious objections: God and the consciousness debates. Zygon 41 (2):249-266. (Google | More links)

Bricke, John (1973). The attribute theory of mind. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 51 (December):226-237. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Chakraborti, Chhanda (2002). Metaphysics of consciousness, and David Chalmers's property dualism. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 19 (2):59-84. (Google)

Chalmers, David J. (2007). Naturalistic dualism. In Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Blackwell. (Cited by 2 | Google)

Dietrich, Eric (1999). Fodor's gloom, or what does it mean that dualism seems true? Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 11 (2):145-152. (Cited by 1 | Google | More links)

Abstract: Any time you have philosophers working on a problem, you know you’ve got troubles. If a question has attracted the attention of the philosophers that means that either it is intractably difficult with convolutions and labyrinthine difficulties that would make other researchers blanch, or that it is just flat out impossible to solve. Impossible problems masquerade as intractable problems until someone either proves the problem is impossible (which can only happen in mathematics), or someone shows all solutions to the problem violate laws of physics (like the perpetual motion machine, for example), or until enough people fail so that declaring defeat is a reasonable move. The problem of consciousness is prototypical of this latter case. Indeed, one might say that it is the Platonic ideal of such a problem. The mere fact that philosophers wrestle with the problem of consciousness should be regarded by psychologists of all stripes as extremely bad news. If the philosophers can’t make any headway, psychologists are doomed

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Abstract: This paper is about a certain family of philosophical positions on the mind-body problem. The positions are dualist, but only in a minimal sense of that term employed by philosophers: according to the

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positions in question, mental entities are immaterial and distinct from all physical things

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Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience constitutes the third phase of development of the field of cognitive psychophysiology since it was established about half a century ago. A critical historical overview is given of this development, focusing on recurring problems that keep frustrating great expectations. It is argued that psychology has to regain its independent status with respect to cognitive neuroscience and should take psychophysical dualism seriously. A constructive quantum physical model for psychophysical interaction is presented, based on a new stochastic interpretation of the quantum potential in the de Broglie–Bohm theory. This model can be applied to analyze cognitive information processing in psychological experiments. It is shown that the quantum potential shares several features with Duns Scotus’ notion of contingent causality

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