PSYC 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Property Dualism, Emergentism, Psychophysical Parallelism

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 321
• Professor: Dan Worthen

Document Summary

Substance dualism (cartesian dualism) physical substance and mental substance (not matter and energy) There are 2 distinctive forms of existence in universe. Materialism (also known as physicalism) claims that there is only one type of stuff in the universe physical stuff. ^ property dualism (like materialism) allows only one basic type of substance, the physical. Idealism (like materialism) moves in the opposite direction from materialism by claiming that what exists is mental (or spiritual), not physical. Interactionism versions of substance dualism or property dualism where mind and body are presumed to interact with each other. Popular dualism folk psychology version of interactionist substance dualism. Embody commonly held intuitions about the relationship between mind and body. Interactionist property dualism interactionism + property dualism, 2 way interaction b/w brain and mind. Emergentism involved in the context of property dualism to gain some traction on the problem. Epiphenomenalism deals with problem of mind body interaction by eliminating one causal direction.