This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Issues Facing Dualism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information:
Issues facing dualism, including:
The problem of other minds
Responses including:
the argument from analogy
the existence of other minds is the best hypothesis.
Dualism makes a “category mistake” (Gilbert Ryle)
Issues facing interactionist dualism, including:
the conceptual interaction problem (as articulated by Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia)
the empirical interaction problem.
Issues facing epiphenomenalist dualism, including:
the challenge posed by introspective self-knowledge
the challenge posed by the phenomenology of our mental life (ie as involving causal connections, both psychological and psycho-physical)
the challenge posed by natural selection/evolution.
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