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Online Articles

See also separate pages for historical books, recent books, and thematic websites.

Starting with the list of David Chalmers, we have the following articles and references online.
I have divided them into approximate motivational categories.

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Ontological Dualism

• John Beloff, What are minds for?
• John Beloff, The mind-brain problem
• Richard J. Bernier, The Plausibility of Substance Dualism as an Approach to the Mind-Body Problem (pdf thesis, html)
• Robert Bolton, Dualism and the Philosophy of the Soul  (cc)
• John Bricke, Interaction and Physiology (cc)
• Scott Brisbane, Case for Dualism (cc)
• Sarah Broadie, Soul and Body in Plato and Descartes (cc)
• Andrew Clifton, An Empirical Argument Against Materialism (pdf, html)(list)
• John DePoe, A Defense of Dualism [pdf] (cc, list)
• Grant Duncan, Mind-Body Dualism and the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain: What Did Descartes Really Say? (orig)
• Katalin Farkas, The unity of Descartes’s thought (cc) [pdf; list]
• Peter Flury-Kleubler, A Dualistic Theory of Consciousness [pdf]
• Peter Flury-Kleubler, A Psychophysical Model: An Integrative Approach to Man [pdf]
• Alfred J. Freddoso, Good News, Your Soul Hasn't Died Quite Yet (cc) [list]
• William Hasker, How Not To Be A Reductivist (cc)  [pdfs]
• David Hodgson, A Role for Consciousness (cc) [list]
• John Hubbard, Parsimony and the mind (cc)
• William James, Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine (the transmission theory)
• Derek S Jeffreys, The Soul is Alive and Well: Non-reductive Physicalism and Emergent Mental Properties
• John F. Kihlstrom, The Seductions of Materialism and the Pleasures of Dualism (cc)
• Peter J. King, Dualism: An empirical test (cc)
• Ole Koksvik, In Defence of Interactionism (pdf,html)
• Harold Langsam, Strategy for Dualists (cc)
• Peter Lloyd, Is the mind physical? Dissecting conscious brain tissue
• Riccardo Manzotti, Why Physicalism and Constructivism Will Never be Able to Understand the Mind
• Graham Dunstan Martin, The End of Materialism (book)
• Colin McGinn, Consciousness and Space (cc)
• Uwe Meixner, Consciousness and Freedom (cc)
• Uwe Meixner, Physicalism, Dualism, and Intellectual Honesty
• Uwe Meixner, New Perspectives for a Dualistic Conception of Mental Causation ()
• Eugene Mills, Interactionism and Physicality (cc)
• Jon Mills, Five Dangers of Materialism (cc)
• Zuraya Monroy-Nasr, Cartesian Dualism and the Union of Mind and Body: A Synchronic Interpretation (cc)
• Matt Perman, The Existence and Nature of the Soul (cc)
• Donald V. Poochigian, To Resurrect a Ghost: In Defence of Psychological Dualism (cc)
• Karl Popper, Language and the body-mind problem: A restatement of interactionism (cc)
• Karl Popper, A note on the body-mind problem (cc)
• Thomas Rauchenstein, Mind-body dualism (cc)
• R.C. Richardson, The 'Scandal' of Cartesian Interactionism (cc)
• Titus Rivas & Hein van Dongen, Exit epiphenomenalism: The demolition of a refuge  [list]
• Titus Rivas, Metasubjective Cognition Beyond the Brain: Subjective Awareness and the Location of Concepts of Consciousness (cc, cc)
• Titus Rivas, Why the efficacy of consciousness cannot be limited to the mind (cc)
• Titus Rivas, The causally efficacious psyche: The efficacy of consciousness and psychological theory (cc)
• Titus Rivas, Neuropsychology and personalist dualism: a few remarks on the supposed death of dualism (cc)
• M.D. Robertson, Dualism vs. Materialism: A Response to Paul Churchland [pdf] (cc)
• Sean Robsville, Arguments against Reductionism, Materialism and Epiphenomenalism (cc)
• Howard D. Roelofs, Second Thoughts on Causation, Dualism, and Interaction (cc)
• Howard D. Roelofs, A Case for Dualism and Interaction (cc)
• Greg Rosenberg, Introduction to A Place for Consciousness - Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World
• Richard Swinburne, Philosopher backs unpopular 'Dualism' (list)
• Charles T. Tart, A Future for Dualism as an Empirical Science? (pdf, cc) [list]
• Charles T. Tart, Transpersonal Realities or Neurophysiological Illusions: Toward an Empirically Testable Dualism [list]
• William F. Vallicella, Answering Some Objections to Substance Dualism (cc)
• Dean Zimmerman, Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind (pdf, cc) [list]

Generalised Dualism & Discrete Degrees

• Frank B. Dilley, Taking consciousness seriously: A defense of Cartesian dualism (cc)
• T.J. van Gelder, Monism, dualism, pluralism (cc)
• Leon James, Substantive Dualism: Swedenborg's Integration of Biological Theology and Rational Psychology (cc)
• Leon James, Scientific Dualism (cc)
• Leon James, Overcoming Objections to Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism (cc)
• José M Romero-Baró, God’s mark on Nature. A Trinitarian approach [pdf] (cc)
• More articles on the current website:  here.

Dialogue on Mind-Matter

• William A.Dembski, Converting Matter into Mind: Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone in Cognitive Science (cc),
• Comment  (listed at ASA)
  Gregory A. Clark, Response to W. Dembski's 'Converting Matter into Mind' (12/1990)
  Feuch, Dennis, The Mind/Body Debate
• Rebuttal
  Dembsky, William, Conflating Matter and Mind

Parapsychology and Paraphysics

• John Beloff, Parapsychology and Radical Dualism (cc, cc)
• John Beloff, Mind-body interactionism in the light of the parapsychological evidence (cc)
• C.J. Ducasse, A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death
• Hoyte Edge, Parapsychology and the Philosophy of Mind (list)
• Brian D. Josephson and Fotini Pallikari-Viras, Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality (list)
• Michael Levin, What is the Fundamental Nature of Consciousness? On the contribution of parapsychology to consciousness research
• Titus Rivas, Reincarnation Research: In search of the most parsimonious exhaustive hypothesis (cc, list)
• Titus Rivas, Rebirth and Personal identity: Is Reincarnation an Intrinsically Impersonal Concept? (cc)
• Titus Rivas, The Survivalist Interpretation of Recent Studies Into the Near-Death Experience (cc)
• F.S. Roberts, A Possible New Approach to the Science-Parapsychology Relationship (list)
• F.S. Roberts, A Possible Line of Progress in Psychical Research
• Lian Sidorov (ed), Who and where is the Self? A round-table discussion on memory, information and the limits of identity
• Douglas M. Stokes, Consciousness and the Physical World
• Charles T. Tart, A Future for Dualism as an Empirical Science? (pdf, cc, html) [list]
• Evan Harris Walker: Dualism, Causal Loops in Time, and the Quantum Observer Theory of Paraphysical Phenomena (cc)

Mentalism & Linguistics

• Gilbert Harman, Why Chomskean Linguistics is Mentalistic (cc)
• Wolfram Hinzen, Mind Design and Minimal Syntax (cc)[pdfs] (table of contents)
• Wolfram Hinzen, Argument from atomism [pdf], Dualism and the Atoms of Thought, JCS 13 (2006) 25

Structural & Formal Speculations

• Vaughan Pratt, Rational Mechanics and Natural Mathematics  (pdf, cc) (see Chu spaces)
• Selmer Bringsford et al, A New Gödelian Argument for Hypercomputing Minds Based on the Busy Beaver Problem (cc) [pdfs] (list)
• Donald D. Hoffman,  The scrambling theorem: A simple proof of the logical possibility of spectrum inversion (home; list)
• Clay Farris Naff, A Fabulous Evolutionary Defense of Dualism (cc)

Panpsychism

• List of Online Papers, compiled by David Chalmers
• Piero Scaruffi, Darwinian panpsychism
• Lothar Schafer, The Emergence of Consciousness in Biological Evolution and Quantum Reality
• William Seager, Consciousness, Information and Panpsychism (list)

Property Dualism & Emergentism

• István A. Aranyosi, Concluding dualism (doc; list)
• Richard J. Campbell and Mark H. Bickhard, Physicalism, Emergence and Downward Causation (pdf)
• David Chalmers, Consciousness and its place in nature
• David Chalmers, The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism
• Chris Clarke,  The nonlocality of mind
• Robert C. Koons, Functionalism Without Physicalism: Outline of an Emergentist Program (cc) (pdfs)
• E.J. Lowe, Self, agency, and mental causation
• Hans Moravec, Dualism through reductionism
• Susan Pockett, The Nature of Consciousness: A Hypothesis
• Micah Sparacio, Mental Realism: Rejecting the Causal Closure Thesis and Expanding our Physical Ontology (cc) (pdfs)
• R. W. Sperry, Mind-Brain Interaction: Mentalism, Yes; Dualism, No  [pdf, cc], (list)

Topics in Zygon

• Quantum Physics and Understanding God
• Symposium On Miracles
• Quantum Reality and the Consciousness of the Universe

Hylemorphic 'Dualism'

• Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia)
• Gianfranco Basti, Mind-Body Relationship in DISF (cc)
• Jason Eberl, Aquinas's Account of Human Embryogenesis and Recent Interpretations
• Derek Jeffreys, The Soul is Alive and Well: Non-reductive Physicalism and Emergent Mental Properties (cc)
• P. Lee and R.P. George, Dualistic Delusions (cc);  discussion with S. Goetz and C. Taliaferro (cc)
• Joseph M. Magee, Dualism in Thomism and Body and Soul
• David S. Oderberg, Hylemorphic Dualism (pdf, html) [list]
• Paul O’Callaghan, Soul in DISF
• Maurice de Wulf, Soul and Body in The Philosophical System of Thomas Aquinas
• On the Soul and the Afterlife: A Comparison and Contrast Between the Views of Plato and Aristotle

Functionalism (ontological aspects)

• Christopher D. Green, The thoroughly modern Aristotle: Was he really a functionalist? (cc)
• Wolfram Hinzen, Dualism and Rationalist Psychology [pdf] (cc)
• C. Klein, Functions & Dispositions [pdf]
• C. Klein, Aristotle and Functionalism  [pdf]

Monism (Materialism and Physicalism; selected!)

• Torin Alter, Nagel on imagination and physicalism
• John Bickle, Concepts of Intertheoretic Reduction in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (cc)
• Ravil Kalmykov, Ring Determinism Solves Problems of Materialism [list]
• Marvin Minsky, Minds are simply what brains do
• Marvin Minsky, Matter, minds, and models
• David Papineau, Thinking about Consciousness
• David Papineau, The rise of physicalism
• Orson Pratt, Absurdities of Immaterialism (1849).
• Filip Radovic: Towards a Proper Monism
• Howard Robinson, Materialism in the philosophy of mind
• William Robinson, Epiphenomenalism
• David Rosenthal, The identity theory
• Wilfrid Sellars, A note on Popper's argument for dualism
• Wilfrid Sellars, Is consciousness physical?
• Daniel Stoljar, Two conceptions of the physical
• Galen Strawson, Real materialism
• Rüdiger Vaas, Why Neural Correlates Of Consciousness Are Fine, But Not Enough (cc)
• Mark Vuletic: Motivating Factors for Adhering to Dualism

Monism (Neutral)

• Harald Atmanspacher, Mind and matter as asymptotically disjoint, inequivalent representations with broken time-reversal symmetry [pdf, list]

Nondualism (pro, selected!)

• Greg Goode, Nondual Perspectives: Non-dualism and Western Philosophers
• Indic Philosophy and Western Mind/Body Dualism (cc)
• see also thematic websites here.

Nondualism (contra)

• George Adams, A Theistic Perspective on Ken Wilber's Transpersonal Psychology (cc)
• L. Stafford Betty, Vadiraja's Refutation of Sankara's Non-Dualism Clearing the Way for Theism
• Robert Bolton, Dualism and the Philosophy of the Soul  (cc)
• Douglas Groothuis, Critical review of "A Brief History of Everything" by Ken Wilber (cc)
• Leon James, Hindu and Buddhist Non-Duality: Conflict in the New Church Mind? (cc)
• Leon James, A Man of the Field (cc) [book]
• I.J. Thompson, What is Enlightenment without Paradox? Nondualism from a theistic perspective.

Belief in Other Minds and Dualism

• Paul Bloom, Is God an accident?  (cc) [my list, his list]
• Shaun Nichols, Mindreading and the Philosophy of Mind (pdf, cc; list)

Idealism

• Richard Conn Henry, The Mental Universe (cc)

Other Discussion

• Selmer Bringsjord, Searle on the brink
• Andrew Chrucky, Critique of Wilfrid Sellars' materialism
• Hoyte Edge, Dualism and the Self: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (list)
• Hoyte Edge, Thinkways: The Impulse to Reductionism
• Brian Josephson, A Critical Point for Science? (cc)
• William G. Lycan, Giving Dualism its Due (cc)
• Barbara Montero, The body problem [list]
• Barbara Montero, Post-physicalism [doc]
• Barbara Montero, What does the Conservation of Energy have to do with Physicalism?
• Yujin Nagasawa, The Knowledge Argument Against Dualism (cc, pdf)
• Joseph A. Newton, Triad: Critique of Dualism, Support of Monism in Plato
• Thomas Polger, Escaping the epiphenomenal trap [pdf]
• A.J. Rudd, What it's like and what's really wrong with physicalism: A Wittgensteinian perspective
• Kazimierz Twardowski, Remarks on the Relations between Soul and Body

Expository Lectures

• Rob Adams, The Case Against Dualism
• Barry Dainton, Philosophy of Mind: Mind-Body Dualism
• Ken Himma, Philosophy of Mind
• Kirk Ludwig,  The Mind-Body Problem: An Overview [pdf] (cc, list)
• Clay Farris Naff, A Fabulous Evolutionary Defense of Dualism (cc)
• Michael Mussachia, Mind-Body Dualism: A Critical Analysis
• James Richard Skemp, Descartes, Meditations and the problem of the Dualism [pdf: list]
• Noel W. Smith, The distant past and its relation to current psychology: A tour of psychophysical dualism
• Cara Spencer, Cartesian Dualism
• Gordon L. Ziniewicz, Descartes' Dualism of Mind and Body (cc)
• Cartesian Dualism
• A Picture of Cartesian Dualism

Unclassified

• Sherrie Steiner Aeschliman, Immanent Dualism
• Stewart Brand, Mind/Body Dualism Conference
• Anthony Campbell, Cartesian dualism and the concept of medical placebos
• Arthur Custance, Cartesian Dualism: Mind and Brain Interaction
• Stefaan E. Cuypers, MacColls Platonic Dualism
• Laura Fillingame, Dualism and mind-body connections
• Paul Elmer More, Definitions of Dualism
• Elizabeth Newman, Theology and Science Without Dualism
• Eleanor Stump, "Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism and Materialism without Reductionism", in Faith and Philosophy 12 (October 1995): 505-31
• Nigel J.T. Thomas, Coding Dualism: Conscious Thought Without Cartesianism.

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