Skip to main content

Substance Dualism

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

Substance dualism: mind and body are two different kinds of thing—an immaterial thinking substance and a physical extended one.

Show

Descartes' argument from the cogito: I can doubt my body exists, never my thinking—so the thinker, he concluded, is not the body.