On Dualism: How to Reconcile Descartes and Spinoza
Ayao Edoh Zanou preprint
This article deals with the philosophy of mind. We revisit the old intellectual conflict between Spinoza's immanent philosophy and Descartes' transcendence. Based on modern physics and recent scientific discoveries, we explain how a single, infinite substance manifests in two distinct realities: the immaterial and the material. Thus, we justify Spinoza's substance monism but reject his immanent...