PP111 Lecture Notes - Epiphenomenalism, Type Physicalism, Mental Event
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Feb: dualism: body and mind are two very different sorts of substances: body is material or physical and mind is immaterial or non-physical, interactionist dualism. A form of dualism according to which minds can affect bodies and bodies can affect minds: epiphenomenalism. A form of dualism according which bodies can affect minds, but minds cannot affect bodies: materialism: both minds and bodies are material or physical things, mind brain identity theory: According to a dualistic theory of mind, the mind is a nonphysical entity or substance and the body is physical. The indiscernibility of identicals: if a = b, then if a has a certain property (characteristics) at a given time, b must also have that property (characteristic) at that time . (61) The law states the obvious: nothing can be different from itself in any way. Leibniz"s law has been used to defend dualist theories of mind.