Faith and Philosophy 17 (3):333-347 (2000)
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In a number of places, Richard Swinburne has defended the logical possibility of perception without a body; and has inferred from this logical possibility that substance dualism is true. I challenge his defence of disembodied perception by arguing that a disembodied perceiver would not be able to distinguish between perceptions and hallucinations. I then claim that even if disembodied perception were possible, this could not be used to support substance dualism: such an inference would be either invalid or question-begging
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Keywords | Disembodied Dualism Existence Religion Substance Theism Swinburne, R |
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ISBN(s) | 0739-7046 |
DOI | 10.5840/faithphil200017328 |
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An Objection to Swinburne’s Argument for Dualism.Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann - 1996 - Faith and Philosophy 13 (3):405-412.
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