TITLE:
Multiplism of the Mind and Its Quality: A Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
AUTHORS:
Xinmin Gao, Yu Zhang, Guanqi He
KEYWORDS:
Mind-Body Problem, Mind, Mental Phenomena, Multiplism of the Mind, Ontological Status
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.13 No.2,
May
9,
2023
ABSTRACT: Some scholars concluded that mind-body theories had come to an impasse. Trying to include mental phenomenon addressed in Buddhism and other value-seeking philosophies in eastern cultures, this thesis provides a solution based on a recognition of a wider range of the mental phenomena and the differences of their qualities. Through a “census” of most types and constitutes of mental phenomena and their qualities, we claim that there are at least four kinds of mind-body relation: the relation between the mind and the body as a whole, between the mind as a whole and constitutive parts of the body, between types of mental phenomena and constitutive parts of the body, and between types of mental phenomena and the body as a whole.