ABSTRACT
The mind/body problem and the problem of free will both address the broad issue of how the mind is related to the physical world of cause and effect. According to dualism, brains and the bodies in which they are found are physical things; the mind, which is a nonphysical object, is distinct from both the whole body and is also distinct from all of the body's physical parts. If the soul is part of the mind and if the soul lives forever and the body does not, the people have an argument for dualism. The argument defends dualism by trying to find a property that the mind has but the brain lacks; the property in question is immortality. The crucial distinction is this: doubting and desiring are attitudes the people have towards propositions; doubting, desiring, and believing are examples of propositional attitudes. .
