Mind-body relation
Mind-body relation
Relation obtaining between the individual mind and its body. Theories of the mind-body relation are monistic or dualistic according as they identify or separate the mind and the body. Monistic theories include
the theory of mind as bodily function, advanced by Aristotle and adhered to by thinkers as divergent as Hobbes, Hegel, and the Behaviorists,
the theory of body as mental appearance held by Berkeley, Leibniz, Schopenhauer and certain other idealists,
the two-aspect theory of Spinoza and of recent neutral monism which considers mind and body as manifestations of a third reality which is neither mental nor bodily.
The principal dualistic theories are
two sided interacti’onism of Descartes, Locke, James and others. See Interactionism.
psycho-physical parallelism. See Parallelism, Psycho-physical.
Epephenomenalism. See Epephenomenalism.
— L.W.