Logic Matters 2008-04-30
Philosophy of Religion 15: Enough already!
Suppose a first year student wrote this (about mind-body substance dualism):There are no very persuasive arguments against dualism ... Dualism is commonly mocked rather than argued against.Then we'd berate this exhibition of sheer ignorance. We'd send the student away with a long reading list. Start, say, with the second chapter of Armstrong's classic Materialist Theory of the Mind. Or perhaps chapters II to V (over fifty pages of careful unpicking and assessment of various arguments, pro and con) of Smith and Jones's Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (yes, folks, it is still in print after 22 years: buy, buy while stocks last!). And we can, of course, add a lot more. The reason the vast majority of contemporary philosophers of mind reject naive substance dualism has nothing to do with mockery, and everything to do with the fact that ...
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