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How would you characterize the mind/body problem? This essay aims to characterize the philosophical question of the mind/body problem. In this essay will explore the philosophical works of dualism and behaviourism, leading to a summarised account of the arguments and their critiques, where I will add my own interpretation of the arguments to present a conclusion. Schopenhauer called the mind-body problem 'the world knot', a puzzle that is beyond our capacity to solve (Robinson and Groves, 2001, P82-3). In philosophy, the mind/body problem asks the questions of whether the mind and body are a single working substance known as 'monism', or are they two distinct properties - a mind, an external, immaterial entity working within a physical material body. It is however approached by varying philosophical schools of thought, that mind and body are in some way related seems indubitable, and has not been seriously disputed (Warburton, 1999 P 130, Robinson and...

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