bundle dualism en · NOUN
Etymology
From bundle + dualism, from Hume's internal observation of the mind as “a bundle of perceptions.”
Meanings
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(uncommon, uncountable) The theory that the mind does not exist as a sole entity, being composed of many immaterial parts that are entirely independent from the material world.
Well, if one is convinced […] that conscious states are not physical in character, the only remaining alternatives are bundle dualism and one-substance dualism. The Cartesian typically rejects the former because he holds that any state is a state of some underlying substance.
1974, William P. Alston, Richard B. Brandt, editors, The Problems of Philosophy, 2nd edition, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., →LCCN, page 451:If what is said above is correct, the mind transcends the physical world and is, ipso facto, non-physical. But this does not indicate whether it is a substance or only a collection of states. I shall argue that bundle dualism will not suffice because this would make it into a complex entity and only by supposing it to be simple can we accommodate certain irresistible intuitions concerning personal identity.
2003, Howard Robinson, “Dualism”, in Stephen P. Stich, Ted A. Warfield, editors, The Blackwell Guide of Philosophy of Mind, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 92:Bundle Dualism, after Cartesian Dualism, accepts the dualism Descartes established between mind and body, but attempts to replace the mind as spiritual with the mind as a bundle of perceptions; David Hume's work falls into this category.
2009, Joddy Murray, Non-discursive Rhetoric, Albany, New York: SUNY Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 106: