This resource contains everything students and teachers alike need to learn or teach the “Substance Dualism” area of the AQA A-Level Philosophy specification. It contains the following information:
Minds exist and are not identical to bodies or to parts of bodies.
The indivisibility argument for substance dualism (Descartes).
Responses, including:
the mental is divisible in some sense
not everything thought of as physical is divisible.
The conceivability argument for substance dualism (expressed without reference to God) (Descartes).
Responses including:
mind without body is not conceivable
what is conceivable may not be metaphysically possible
what is metaphysically possible tells us nothing about the actual world.
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