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Materialism versus Dualism

The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology January 23, 2015 Sara Worley

Abstract: Materialism is the doctrine that the world is entirely physical, whereas dualism is the doctrine that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: mind and bodies. Dualists say that minds are not made out of physical stuff, and they are not subject to the laws of nature. There are a number of arguments for dualism, ranging from concerns about free will, to...