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The 24 pages that link to Cartesian dualism, each with the reason it gives.

• RationalismBroader topic: His rationalist account of the thinking self helped motivate this influential mind–body distinction.

• DualismBroader topic: It gives a specific modern account of dualism’s two fundamental kinds.

• Embodied cognitionCompared with: Embodied cognition rejects the idea that thought can be understood apart from bodily life.

• Baruch SpinozaCompared with: Spinoza rejects Descartes’s plurality of substances and treats mind and body as expressions of one reality.

• OccasionalismRelated: The separation of mind and body created a prominent case for occasionalist explanations.

• HylomorphismCompared with: It contrasts with hylomorphic accounts that treat soul as the form of a living body.

• Gilbert RyleCompared with: Ryle called this picture the ‘official doctrine’ and argued that it rests on a category mistake.

• Philosophy of mindCompared with: It sets a classic substance-based answer to the mind–body problem.

• Substance dualismBroader topic: It is the best-known historical version of substance dualism.

• Daniel DennettCompared with: Dennett’s naturalism rejects a separate mental substance outside the physical world.

• Gregory BatesonCompared with: Bateson’s ecology of mind challenged the separation of mind from body and environment.

• EmbodimentCompared with: Embodiment challenges the separation of mental life from bodily existence.

• Nicolas MalebrancheRelated: His occasionalism addresses the causal interaction that Cartesian dualism leaves difficult to explain.

• PosthumanismRelated: Its mind–body separation helped shape the bounded human subject posthumanism disputes.

• Subject-object distinctionBroader topic: It gives the division a historically influential mind–world form.

• Being and TimeCompared with: Heidegger rejects the detached thinking subject as the starting point for understanding existence.

• Philosophical InvestigationsCompared with: The discussion of sensation and inner experience unsettles pictures inherited from mind-body dualism.

• Gabriel MarcelCompared with: Marcel rejects treating the body as an external possession of a detached mind.

• John McDowellCompared with: His account avoids placing rational thought in a separate realm outside embodied human life.

• Modern philosophyCompared with: Its sharp separation became a target for monist and materialist alternatives.

• LebensphilosophieCompared with: Life-centered philosophies resist treating lived existence as a separable mind observing a mechanical body.

• Kitarō NishidaCompared with: Nishida’s emphasis on experience before subject-object division challenges this familiar separation.

• Mary MidgleyCompared with: Midgley rejected sharp divisions that isolate humans from animal life and embodied nature.

• Spinoza's EthicsCompared with: Spinoza rejects the separate-substances framework associated with Descartes.