The Mind-Body Problem True and False Quiz

Paul M. Churchland
. Dualism is the view that, in addition to physical substances like bodies and brains, there are mental substances or mental properties.

. One way for property dualists to avoid the tension between claiming that mental properties are emergent and claiming that they are irreducible is to give up the claim that they are irreducible.

. According to Churchland, Ockhams Razor provides a decisive refutation of dualism.

. Churchland argues that an evolutionary account of the mind counts against both substance dualism and property dualism.

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