Ebook: The Immaterial Self: A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind

Dualism is a doctrine engaged on two fronts. It affirms a thesis about the mind, in opposition to various forms of materialism and mental reductionism, and a thesis about the physical world, in opposition to various forms of mentalism and idealism. The Immaterial Self is a defense of the Cartesian account in which the immaterial contents of the mind are assigned to an immaterial mental subject.