Volume 69, Issue 1, 2021
Book Symposium: Are We Bodies or Souls?
Eric T. Olson
Pages 89-101
The Dualist Project and the Remote-Control Objection
Substance dualism says that all thinking beings are immaterial. This sits awkwardly with the fact that thinking requires an intact brain. Many dualists say that bodily activity is causally necessary for thinking. But if a material thing can cause thinking, why can’t it think? No argument for dualism, however convincing, answers this question, leaving dualists with more to explain than their opponents.