The central claim of what is often called Cartesian dualism, in honor of Descartes, is that the immaterial mind and the material body, while being ontologically distinct substances, causally interact.

Aug 19, 2003 · In his 1949 book, The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle was able to describe Cartesian dualism as the ‘official doctrine’ to which ‘most philosophers, psychologists and religious teachers …

Similarly, Eccles and the Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902–94) advocated a species of mind-matter dualism, though their tripartite division of reality into matter, mind, and ideas is …

Dualism, simply put, is the belief that something is composed of two fundamentally different components, and it was around long before Descartes put pen to page.

One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.”

In Descartes’ philosophy we can see the characteristic signature of dualism. The entire universe is composed only of things falling into one of two categories. Everything is either a mind or a body, with …

Here is one of Descartes’ arguments for his dualism: Premise 1: I can doubt the existence of my body. Premise 2: I cannot doubt the existence of my thoughts. Conclusion: Therefore my mind must be …

Nov 10, 2023 · Known as Cartesian dualism, this concept suggests that the mind and body are two fundamentally different substances: one immaterial and thinking, the other material and extended in …

Cartesian dualism is a re-narration of Gnostic metaphysics in scientific and philosophical jargon of the day. Both system shares a fundamental ontological category of duality: mind and body, relying on …

Almost 2000 years after Plato and Aristotle reasoned that the human mind or soul could not be identified with the physical body, Rene Descartes reinforced this concept and gave it a name, dualism.