ABSTRACT

Nothing in our critique of strong dualism has yet challenged the thesis argued for in section 1.iv, which we called the ‘cartesian conception’ of the meanings of terms referring to conscious states. This holds that those meanings are wholly concerned with the subjective feel of the corresponding states. Neither has anything yet challenged the thesis argued for in section 1.iii, that conscious states are themselves non-physical: weak dualism has survived unscathed.