The Problem of Soul–Body Causal Interaction

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In Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 131–151 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Causation and Dualism Why Not Locate Souls in Space? Property/Event Dualism or Dual Aspect Theory.

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the problem of soul–body causal interaction   Descartes' development and defense of soul–body dualism ‐ causal interaction, soul and its body   Descartes' belief that the whole problem ‐ being a false supposition, not being proved   causation and dualism   Sosa contending, that Cartesian dualists ‐ explicating ownership, in terms of direct causal interaction   all causal properties, possessed extrinsically ‐ or into a noncausal spatial relation   spatial relation between objects, being insufficient ‐ for causal relation between them   causal agents, producing an effect ‐ as a patient affected by a causal agent   representational realism, visual field matching up to ‐ as coming over to shake one's hand   the soul, existing on the grounds that the self ‐ as Nagel concedes, is a simple, indivisible entity

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