Substance Dualism

Cartesian dualism claims...

• ...minds do not depend on bodies to exist.

• ...minds depend on bodies to exist.

• ...minds and bodies have the same properties.

Which of these illustrates Descartes' indivisibility argument?

• hands

• qualia

• perception

Which of these are objections to Descartes' indivisibility argument?

• We can conceive of some physical things being smaller.

• Not everything physical is divisible.

• Descartes assumes the mind is an ontologically distinct substance.

Descartes' conceivability argument contains the statement:

• It is possible that mind can exist without body.

• If two things have different properties, that proves that they cannot be one and the same thing.

Descartes' assertion that mind without body is conceivable is challenged by...

• philosophical behaviourism

• interactionism

• epiphenomenalism

Which of these statements refers to metaphysical impossibility?

• The existence of something that defies the laws of nature.

• Something that doesn't make sense conceptually.

• Something being what it is not.

The conceptual interaction problem is concerned with...

• how the mind can cause the body to move.

• how the mind can exist.

• the generation of energy by a mind.

The empirical interaction problem is concerned with...

• how the mind can cause the body to move.

• how the mind can exist.

• the generation of energy by a mind.

What issue does Descartes never discuss?

• How the mind can cause the body to move.

• How we can know there are other minds.

• How we can make conceptual mistakes.

Who referred to substance dualism as "the dogma of the ghost in the machine"?

• Ryle

• Hempel

• Avramides