property dualism en · NOUN
Etymology
From property + dualism. Coined by Canadian philosopher Patricia Churchland in 1980.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The doctrine that only material substances exist and may possess both physical and nonphysical properties.
We have seen reasons to affirm property dualism: Consciousness and conscious states are mental and not physical. But what about the bearer of consciousness? Is it immaterial as well, or is it the brain or body or something else that is physical?
2002, J. P. Moreland, What is the Soul? Recovering Human Personhood in a Scientific Age, Norcross, Georgia: Ravi Zacharias Internaitonal Ministries, →ISBN, page 27:Substance dualism leaves room for the possibility that the soul might be able to exist apart from the body, either before birth or after death; property dualism does not. Property dualism allows for the compatibility of mental and physical causation, since the cause of an action might under one aspect be describable as a physical event in the brain and under another aspect as a desire, emotion, or thought; substance dualism usually requires causal interaction between the soul and the body.
2005, Ted Honderich, editor, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 221, column 2:What's radical about property dualism is that it claims that, besides all of these physical properties, the brain has some nonphysical properties.
2005, Ian Ravenscroft, Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
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sv egenskapsdualism (Translations) · pl dualizm własności (Translations) · de Eigenschaftsdualismus (Translations)