Dualism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aug 19, 2003 · In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical – or mind and body or mind and brain – are, in some sense, radically different kinds of things.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2009 Edition)
Aug 19, 2003 · In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mental and the physical — or mind and body or mind and brain — are, in some sense, radically different kinds of thing.
Leibniz’s Philosophy of Mind - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sep 22, 1997 · Leibniz’s rejection of materialist conceptions of the mind was coupled with a strong opposition to dualistic views concerning the relationship between mind and body, particularly the substance dualism that figured in the philosophy of Descartes and his followers.
René Descartes - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Dec 3, 2008 · It offered some initial results of his metaphysical investigations, including mind–body dualism. It did not, however, engage in the deep skepticism of the later Meditations, nor did it claim to establish, metaphysically, that the essence of matter is extension.
Afterlife - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Dec 26, 2005 · We bring to the fore other reasons why the topic of an afterlife is philosophically interesting. In sections two and three we consider the concept and possibility that persons survive death in light of two substantial philosophies of mind: dualism (section two) …
Idealism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aug 30, 2015 · This entry discusses philosophical idealism as a movement chiefly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although anticipated by certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy and continuing into the twentieth century.
Śaṅkara - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Oct 4, 2021 · The classical Indian philosophy of Advaita Vedānta articulates a philosophical position of radical nondualism, a revisionary worldview which it derives from the ancient Upaniṣadic texts. According to Advaita Vedāntins, the Upaniṣads reveal a fundamental principle of nonduality termed “brahman,” which is the reality of all things.
Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jun 18, 2004 · Substance dualism, such as traditional Cartesian dualism (Descartes 1644), asserts the existence of both physical and non-physical substances. Such theories entail the existence of non-physical minds or selves as entities in which consciousness inheres.
Buddha - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Feb 17, 2011 · That he listed five kinds of psychophysical element, and not just one, shows that the Buddha embraced a kind of dualism.
Table of Contents - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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