Moreland Defends Dualist Interactionism, Arguing That the Mind Is Distinct

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Moreland defends dualist interactionism, arguing that the mind is distinct from the brain. He compares physicalism, the view that the only thing that exists in the universe is matter, with substance dualism, the view that mind is separate from matter. He gives several reasons for rejecting physicalism and accepting dualism. Moreland claims that the idea of dualism is best understood from within a wider metaphysic, such as theism.
-According to Moreland, the mind-body problem focuses on two main issues: (i) whether a human being is composed of one ultimate component or two and, if the answer is two, (ii) how

• A) philosophers relate to these two.
• B) the two cancel out each other.
• C) the two relate to one another.
• D) these two components can give rise to a third.

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