PHIL 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Causal Closure, Physicalism, Empty Set
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The problem of how subjects of experience are related to their physical bodies". Contentious how the mind" is related to the body. Limiting to human persons, but may include non-human animals. Person is identical with their body, or some distinguished part of it, as its brain. Person is a composite entity, one part is their body and another is something else, possibly an immaterial spirit or soul. Later 2 are forms of substance dualism". Substance" any sort of persisting object or thing which is capable of undergoing changes in its properties over time. Don"t confuse with substance" denoting some kind of stuff, as water. Writes as if human person is distinct from body. Other times, the human person is a combination in a relation of substance union". Person is not made of any parts, invisible. Subjects of experience, with thoughts and feelings. Behaviour of bodies governed by mechanical laws, movements determined by effect of coming into contact with other bodies.
