My relationship to athleticism has changed pretty drastically in the last year. At some point, I began looking at my habits and decided I wanted a change. Swimming, biking and especially weightlifting ...

A new book argues that some proponents of “neurotheology” misstate the relationship between our bodies and our souls. What exactly am I? And what are you? The nature and essence of human beings is one ...

Philosophical Studies was founded in 1950 by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars to provide a periodical dedicated to work in analytic philosophy. The journal remains devoted to the publication of ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

Descartes believed that there was a logical path from doubting the existence of the body to affirming mind-body dualism. In the 20th and 21st centuries, a critique of Cartesian reasoning first made by ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

Until him, such a separation was not part of mainstream philosophy. In fact, this idea of duality came to be named after him, and is known as “Cartesian dualism”. The duality was in keeping with the ...