The Case of Dualism

Overview

We will see if mind-body dualism is true through its arguments

The Natural Belief in Dualism

I’m a Soul Man[Section]

The Discernibility ARgument

The Cartesian Argument

The Platonic Argument

The Parapsychology Argument

The need for evidence

The Natural Belief in Dualism

The unique capabilities of humans is born from an external agent such as a soul or a mind. We treat objects differently from people.

If an object is shattered it is gone,

The introspection Argument

Because we are capapble of being self aware of experiences which are not present in the physical or have correspondences within the hpysical, we must have a dual nature.

These introspective experiences are argued to be transcendent experiences

The discernibility argument

SImilar to the introspection argument but focuses on that brains have properties that minds could not and vice versa

Coutneragument is that it is a semantic issue

The Cartesian Argument

it is a form of the disceribility argument where the mind has the property of being 100% known to exist due to cognito ergo sum but the body is not 100% known to exist

The Platonic Argument

Plato is the first to have distingusihed the mental and the physical.

It is possible for the mind or soul to exist before the body and exist after the death of the body whether ot can ornot. Noncoporeal existence can be argued without contradiction with coherence. if it is possible to do so, then the mind cannot be identical with the body

It’s possible for the body to survive the death of the mind

Parapsychology Argument

Therre are reports of ghosts

Coutnerargument: Ghosts do not intervene with the hpysical world that much or do so in a clear manner

The need for evidence

The arguments with materialism and dualism has been inconclusive. More research needs to be done into the nature of human death