Saturday April 11, 4-6pm
Dual-aspect monism is a philosophical framework in which the mental and the material are irreducible to one another. Both mind and matter are manifestations, or aspects, of an underlying reality that itself is neither mental nor material. This account of the mind-matter issue currently receives increasing attention in the philosophy of mind and in consciousness studies. It offers a rich repertoire of options to relate mental activity to the material world as well as both of them to their psychophysically neutral ground. The resulting tripartite picture of reality
can be traced back to Spinoza and Schelling and was picked up in the collaboration of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung. It will be shown that its more recent refinements present a coherent systematic metaphysical position solving a number of conceptual challenges posed by the mind-matter problem that alternative (traditional) approaches fail to address.
Saturday April 11, 4-6pm
Dual-aspect monism is a philosophical framework in which the mental and the material are irreducible to one another. Both mind and matter are manifestations, or aspects, of an underlying reality that itself is neither mental nor material. This account of the mind-matter issue currently receives increasing attention in the philosophy of mind and in consciousness studies. It offers a rich repertoire of options to relate mental activity to the material world as well as both of them to their psychophysically neutral ground. The resulting tripartite picture of reality
can be traced back to Spinoza and Schelling and was picked up in the collaboration of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung. It will be shown that its more recent refinements present a coherent systematic metaphysical position solving a number of conceptual challenges posed by the mind-matter problem that alternative (traditional) approaches fail to address.
