Oct 15, 2024 04:59 PM
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-mind-bod...taphysics/
EXCERPTS: Is property dualism really the best way out between the Scylla of physicalism and the Charybdis of substance dualism? Ralph Weir’s book builds on the growing discontent with physicalism among philosophers of mind, accompanied by a simultaneous aversion to substance dualism, with property dualism allegedly being a more adequate and defensible metaphysics of mind. His main argument, the parity argument, builds on the common ground between virtually all dualists (property or substance)—the conceivability argument—and concludes that if one accepts the conceivability argument, one should accept the existence of mental substances. The book is thus a defense of substance dualism.
[...] Ralph Weir’s book is without a doubt an outstanding and very important contribution to the metaphysics of mind. Too long has property dualism been hailed as the better dualism. The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics powerfully refutes this notion and introduces substance dualism as the position all dualists need to embrace. The book is written in readable, precise and didactic language. My criticisms are few and minor: the ignoring of NDEs; the terminological switching between “mental/phenomenal” and “nonphysical substance”; and his perhaps too generous concessions to detractors of the likes of Hume... (MORE - details)
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Body-Metaphy...1032457686
EXCERPTS: Is property dualism really the best way out between the Scylla of physicalism and the Charybdis of substance dualism? Ralph Weir’s book builds on the growing discontent with physicalism among philosophers of mind, accompanied by a simultaneous aversion to substance dualism, with property dualism allegedly being a more adequate and defensible metaphysics of mind. His main argument, the parity argument, builds on the common ground between virtually all dualists (property or substance)—the conceivability argument—and concludes that if one accepts the conceivability argument, one should accept the existence of mental substances. The book is thus a defense of substance dualism.
[...] Ralph Weir’s book is without a doubt an outstanding and very important contribution to the metaphysics of mind. Too long has property dualism been hailed as the better dualism. The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics powerfully refutes this notion and introduces substance dualism as the position all dualists need to embrace. The book is written in readable, precise and didactic language. My criticisms are few and minor: the ignoring of NDEs; the terminological switching between “mental/phenomenal” and “nonphysical substance”; and his perhaps too generous concessions to detractors of the likes of Hume... (MORE - details)
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Body-Metaphy...1032457686
