ABSTRACT
Descartes’ reputation as the arch dualist who banished mind from nature seems secure. He conceived mind and body as distinct substances, unified the domain of mind under the rubric of consciousness, and bequeathed the problem of mind-body interaction to his followers. He rendered sensory qualities peculiarly mental and subjective by excluding them from body qua extended substance, relegating them to mind as what were later called secondary qualities. The ontological divide he established between mind and matter seemingly removed mind from the province of natural science.
