The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Bah, humbug!

Back to substance dualism, or Berkelian idealism.

Or anyway the Augustinian/Platonic conception of the soul.

The immateriality of the self, the Ego, seems to me unnatural to deny.

No version of epiphenomenalism or event or property dualism seems credible to me.

Nor any Aristotelian/Thomist - or neo-Thomist - conception of the soul.

So, an atheist anti-physicalism, then.

And anti-nominalism.

Well, why not?

I could never give up appearances, propositions, properties, numbers, sets, or possibilia, anyway, and a whole lot more.

Given all those ontological commitments, why balk at souls?

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