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5 - Interlude: What Exactly Is the Difference between Our Being Immaterial Souls and Our Being Composite Physical Objects?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2024

Andrew Brenner
Affiliation:
Hong Kong Baptist University
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The previous three chapters identify numerous surprising similarities between substance dualism and the thesis that we are composite physical objects of some sort. This chapter reinforces this point, and argues that these two theses are more similar than is commonly recognized. While the chapter concedes that some substantive differences between the two theses remain, it is doubtful that these differences are of the right sort to allow us to decide between one thesis and the other.

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Personal Ontology
Mystery and Its Consequences
, pp. 102 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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