Philosophy A-Level
Substance Dualism
What Substance Dualism means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Substance Dualism
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The ontological view that the mind and the body are two distinct and independent substances.
The theory that minds and bodies are two fundamentally different kinds of substance.
Topics that use Substance Dualism
- Metaphysics of mind (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Category Mistake
- Eliminative Materialism
- Epiphenomenalism
- Folk Psychology
- Functionalism
- Leibniz's Law
- Multiple Realizability
- Non-reductive Physicalism
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