PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Mental Substance, Monism, Scientific Method
17 Sep 2013
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Recall descartes: (1) descartes thought he was identical to his mind. (2) descartes thought that his mind was not a physical thing: he contended that he could exist without his body or any other bodies at all. A dualist is someone who thinks there are such things as physical and non- physical substances. It means that mental substances have none (or almost none) of the properties that physical objects have. Mental substance don"t have mass, charge, spin, velocity, momentum, etc. Most people who are not dualists are monists. A monist is someone who thinks that the only kinds of substances there are either only physical or only non-physical substances. Monists who think that the only kinds of things in the world are mental things are idealists. Monists who think that the only kinds of things in the world are physical things are physicalist (also known as materialist).
