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Rene Descartes Interactionist Substance Dualism - Coggle Diagram
Rene Descartes
Interactionist Substance Dualism
Dualist
Two fundamentally different kinds of substances in the world
Material substances
"Extended"
Meaning spatial and subject to physical law
"Non-thinking"
Mental substances
"Thinking"
Meaning possessing consciousness and intentionality
“Non-extended”
Descartes's dualism is
Substance Dualism
Meaning minds are wholly mental, immaterial substances
Substantivalism
Minds are substances. To "have a mind" is for there to be a particular substance that is one's mind.
Immaterialism
If there are mental substances, then they are wholly immaterial
Descartes's Interactionism (reject P4)
Persons are "unions" of immaterial minds and material bodies
Minds causally interact with bodies
The brain is the locus of interaction
Cuz this is common sense!