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The Mind as a Particular: Why Cartesian Dualism Is True

2025-01-03

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Modern philosophy focuses on the mind’s _universal_ features, such as qualia and intentionality, typically with the aim of reducing them to physical processes. This endeavour runs into so-called “hard problems”, much like the alchemists’ pursuits in ages past. Meanwhile, the mind’s _particularity_ – its deepest, most distinctive, defining characteristic – is surprisingly overlooked. Each mind is a _particular_, in...

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2e4e57a8-3c7f-5b91-9006-6df396b45d59
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10.32388/kddwqv
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