TY  - JOUR
TT  - PSYCHO-PHYSICAL UNION: THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERACTION IN THE CARTESIAN PROGRAMME
AU  - Yıldır, Hülya
PY  - 2016
DA  - January
JF  - Temaşa Erciyes Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Dergisi
JO  - Temâşâ Felsefe Dergisi
PB  - Arslan TOPAKKAYA
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-371X
SP  - 92
EP  - 111
IS  - 4
KW  - Tözsel Birlik
KW  - Nedensel Bağlantı
KW  - Duyumlama
KW  - Hayalgücü
KW  - Yerçekimi Analojisi ve Epifiz Bezi
N2  - In the contemporary philosophy of mind, the term Cartesian dualism is generally accepted to refer to Descartes’ doctrine of the incorporeality of the mind. Due to the dualistic ontology, a human being is a union of two independent alien substances, namely mind and body. The body, as a part of the mechanical universe, is an entirely physical and thereby extended substance (res extensa). For this reason, the workings of the human body can be explained in merely physical and mechanical terms, that is, the laws of matter in motion. However, the mind is entirely a noncorporeal and therefore unextended thinking substance (res cogitans). The most apparent problem with such dualistic philosophy of mind arises from its immateriality. The idea of the “immateriality” of the mind inevitably brought about the problem of ‘unity’ between mind and body and that of the ‘interaction’ between them. The purpose of this article, as distinct from the dualistic thesis, is to provide a critical evaluation of the Cartesian doctrine of the essential ‘union’ of the mind and body and especially the nature of psychophysical interaction.
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