Philosophy of Mind · Mind and matter

Property dualism

A physical subject can have phenomenal properties irreducible to physical properties.

What it claims

Property dualism distinguishes physical properties from irreducible phenomenal properties without requiring a separate mental substance. A brain can be material while the character of what an experience feels like is not exhausted by a physical description. In its anti-physicalist form, the view denies that physical facts alone fix every fact.

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Key thinkers

Thomas Nagel · Frank Jackson · David Chalmers · Saul Kripke · Joseph Levine