New Theory of Dualism
Non-Cartesian Dualisms of mind/body and divinity/nature ... seeking to
understand how minds and bodies are distinct, but intertwined and causally
connected at many levels.
Introductory Papers
First see
discussion on
whether the world is causally closed?
Harold Langsam,
Strategy for Dualists,
2001 (cc); although about constructive property
dualism.
Elliot Sober,
Why Must
Homunculi Be So Stupid?, (Mind, 1982, XCI, 420,
cc); for a discussion that homunculi
are questions of fact (or not), and cannot automatically be discounted.
J.M. Schwartz, H.P. Stapp and M. Beauregard,
Quantum theory in
neuroscience and psychology: a neurophysical model of mind/brain interaction
(cc);
see especially sections 1-4 and 6 for a discussion of evidence for the effects
of mind in the brain. In section 5, Stapp et al suggest that the
mind might choose when decohering measurements occur, but the scope of
influence via the 'quantum Zeno effect' is extremely limited, and hardly
plausible as a means of supporting a substantial dualist influence (more
details).
William Hasker,
How Not
To Be A Reductivist (cc),
explaining why it is necessary to give up the causal closure of the physical
domain.
Frank B. Dilley,
Taking consciousness seriously: A defense of Cartesian dualism, 2004 (cc):
examining & rebutting some of the standard objections to dualism, and clarifying
questions about interdependence & structure.
B. Alan Wallace,
Buddhism & Science: Confrontation and Collaboration, 2008:
the opposition of Buddhism to a purely monist/materialist view of minds, but
also the prospects for collaborations to improve science.
Scientific Evidence for
Survival of Consciousness after Death
Generative Dualism
Outline of a new theory described by I.J. Thompson,
by means of
Derivative
Dispositions and Multiple Generative Levels
Discrete Degrees Within and Between Nature and Mind Ten Principles,
Dualism in
Descartes and Swedenborg,
in the contexts of
Quantum Mechanics:
Quantum
Mechanics and Consciousness: A Causal Correspondence Theory, and
Quantum mechanics and consciousness: Thoughts on a causal correspondence
theory
Mind-Body Dualism:
Dualism: a Causal Correspondence Theory
Spiritual-Natural Dualism:
What is Discrete and Dual?
Physics-Spirituality: Are Quantum Physics and Spirituality related?
Neglected sources of new philosophical ideas:
Emanuel Swedenborg
See The Interaction between
the Soul and the Body, 1769 (elsewhere)
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