The Mind--Body Problem by Westphal Jonathan;

Author:Westphal, Jonathan; [Westphal, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

For Jackson and Chalmers, the qualitative part of the mind is nonphysical, and so they are dualists. Jackson’s dualism is epiphenomenalist, and he found that in the end it was not a position he could live with.

Chalmers has stuck to his guns, and he has toyed with exotic theories such as panpsychism that build dualism into the fabric of things. The difficulty here is that he is not giving us an account of the very thing of which Descartes could not give us an account. Even the panpsychist ought to be able to give a coherent account of the relation between the mental and the physical, and he does not. His position is sound enough, to the extent that it does recognize the “data” (the inconsistent tetrad) that fuel the original problem. The trouble is that the mind–body problem metastasizes into the same problem across the entire universe. Why give us infinitely many more instances of the mind–body problem than we already have? It is of course open to the panpsychist to retort that if one instance of the problem is solved, they all are, so the numbers do not matter. Either way, though, it is better to look for a solution where one is to be found.

Let us look next at the scientific solutions that have been offered to the problem.

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