Property dualism

The property dualism is a position in philosophy of mind, whose central thesis is that a person is not made ​​up of two substances ( mind and body ) is put together, but that it (the person ) was only an object, but have physical and mental characteristics (thus physical characteristics and non-material ). The property dualism belongs therefore limited to the ranks of dualisms; eventually two of the existence of mutually exclusive types of entities, ie manifestations go out. Often Eigenschaftsdualisten of the qualia, ie the subjective experience levels, regarded as non-physical properties, since in these the reducibility remains doubtful to physical or physical states.

Objection

The property dualism is interactionist approach, because it assumes that the physical affects the mental and the mental that can affect the physical; the latter assumption is the more problematic (keyword: Mental causation ). Because this assumption is against the principle of the unity of the physical world. It states that only Physical Physical else can influence. The Mental contrast, is by definition outside the physical world instead, it has no physical elements or properties. But if it has no physical components, it may not affect the physical well.

The retroactive effect of a mental state on physical states has so far not been empirically demonstrated.

Representative

• David Chalmers
• Ervin László