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Philosophy Essay: Dualism Alisia Jedrzejczak Introduction Dualism is the view that the universe is composed of two fundamentally different sorts of things; those that are physical and those that are nonphysical. The dualist position proposes that mind and body are two distinct and very different things, the body or matter being physical, the mind or soul being non physical. I will define physical as 'something that is within the explanatory reach of science and can extend into space' as opposed to nonphysical as being 'something forever beyond the explanatory reach of science and cannot extend into space'. A materialist, or monist, opposes this view, believing that there exists only physical substances in the universe, hence the mind is physical. A dualist believes that the mind and the body are two separate things, whether they are dependent or independent of eachother. However the question thus arises: how is it that the physical and...

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