Worldview: Cartesian Dualism (DUAL)

Canonical source

Extracted theses (commitments)

  • DUAL-1 (Metaphysics): Mind and body (the mental and the physical) are fundamentally different kinds of things. E-030
  • DUAL-2 (Causality): Mental and physical events causally influence each other (interactionism). E-029
  • DUAL-3 (Contrast claim): Materialism/physicalism identifies mind with the physical; dualism rejects this identification. E-031