Concept

Interactionism (philosophy of mind)

Overview

position in the philosophy of mind which states that mind and matter are distinct and causally act upon one another

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Philosophers who discussed Interactionism (philosophy of mind)

• Karl Popper
• René Descartes
• D. H. Th. Vollenhoven

Related ideas

• Mind–body problem
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
• Karl Popper
• Nicolas Malebranche
• Mind–body dualism
• Max Tegmark
• Quantum decoherence
• Quantum indeterminacy
• Dark energy
• Monadology
• Neutral monism
• Property dualism
• Jaegwon Kim
• Quantum mechanics
• René Descartes
• David Chalmers
• Richard Swinburne
• Substance theory
• Soul
• Pineal gland
• Occasionalism
• Baruch Spinoza
• Wilfrid Sellars

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Jaegwon Kim
• Henry Stapp
• The Conscious Mind
• Avshalom Elitzur
• Consciousness causes collapse

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