Cognitive dualism offers a defensible conception of theism, and Scruton is right to endorse it. However, he retains a commitment to the ontological dualism it is his purpose to reject, and this leads ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

A TRANSLATION of Deussen’s Philosophy of the Upanishads 1 will be welcomed by all who have been familiar with this learned work in the original, and who hold it important that more accurate notions of ...

Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, SEGUNDA EPOCA, Vol. 28, No. 2(77) (May 2013), pp. 257-264 (8 pages) A recent focus of Philip Kitcher's research has ...

Mind and matter have always been a conundrum of human curiosity. Is mind matter or vice versa? How can a non-physical mind be linked to matter? Philosophers have explored various perspectives. While ...

The age-old mind-matter problem is explored through Western dualism, contrasting views like physicalism, and Hindu perspectives where the mind is subtle matter. Hindu thought emphasizes the mind's ...

Buddhism is a distinctive world religion. It lacks an 'omnigod' — an omnipresent, omniscient, all-powerful creator — and a notion of humans as complexes of physical bodies and souls that ascend to ...

A darshana is an outlook, a philosophy, literally, a “vision.” The term darshana is especially associated with the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy, the so-called shaddarshana, or “six ...