Showing posts with label Dualism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dualism. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2022

 Video discussion of Chapter 2: Substance Dualism. Video by alfsvoid, called "Can Reason Prove We Have a Soul?"



Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Frank Jackson - The Knowledge Argument - Mary's Room - Mary the Super-Sc...

Short video illustrating Frank Jackson's knowledge argument against physicalism and his related thought experiment of Mary, the colorblind super scientist. Philosopher Galen Strawson explains.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Non-materialist neuroscience - RationalWiki

Non-materialist neuroscience - RationalWiki
EXCERPT:
Non-materialist neuroscience is one of the latest fronts in the war on science. The battle has been a long time coming and it is surprising it has taken so long to get going. Modern neuroscience is rapidly reducing much of human thought, emotion and behavior into component pieces of neuronal interactions. The combination of computational modeling and non-invasive imaging of living brains has allowed researchers to begin describing how complex thought emerges from the firing patterns of neurons. In a way, neuroscience is the death knell of dualism. When materialist causes become both necessary and sufficient to explain all of human thought then parsimony dictates that references to a soul or other supernatural entities can be tossed out.

Friday, October 12, 2012

QualiaSoup videos on Substance Dualism

Youtuber QualiaSoup is a "UK artist and secular humanist discussing critical thinking, science, atheism, philosophy, religion & the natural world." Check out QualiaSoup's two-parter (pun?) on substance dualism.

Part 1 of 2:

Part 2 of 2:


Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth

The correspondence between René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, edited by Jonathan Bennett. One of the main things that Elisabeth famously gives Descartes a hard time about is the problem of mental causation.

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/descelis.pdf


Monday, October 3, 2011

Philosophy Bro on Zombies, Minds, and Possibility

Philosophy Bro: Mailbag Monday: Zombies, Minds, and Possibility
Excerpt:
So Kripke's Modal Argument and Chalmers' Zombie Argument both rely on the notion of possible worlds that we touched on last week, and they're both arguments against physicalism, the idea that everything can be described in terms of physical properties - if it's not physical, fuck it. It's not real. That's an interesting thesis for philosophers of mind, because it sure seems like consciousness isn't just physical. Descartes famously imagined himself as nothing but a mind - if everything physical ceased to exist, he said he could definitely keep thinking.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

Interview with David Chalmers on consciousness

Here's a video of an interview with the philosopher of mind David Chalmers on consciousness and why it poses such a hard problem for philosophy and science: