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The 45 pages that link to Mind–body problem, each with the reason it gives.

• René DescartesRelated: His dualism gave this enduring problem one of its most influential formulations.

• IdealismRelated: Idealism gives distinctive answers about the dependence between mind and matter.

• PhysicalismRelated: Physicalism is a proposed solution to this central question.

• MaterialismRelated: Materialism answers this problem by grounding mental life in physical reality.

• DualismRelated: It frames the central question for dualism about mind and matter.

• MonismRelated: Its competing answers show how monism differs from dualist accounts of mind and matter.

• OccasionalismRelated: Occasionalism explains apparent mental influence by making God the direct cause of bodily effects.

• SubstanceRelated: Treating mind and body as substances creates questions about their interaction and unity.

• HylomorphismRelated: Hylomorphism offers a framework in which soul and body are not separate substances.

• Philosophy of mindRelated: It is the field’s central question about the relation between mind and body.

• CartesianismRelated: Cartesian dualism gives this enduring problem one of its most influential formulations.

• Christian ScienceRelated: Christian Science rejects the premise that material conditions define ultimate reality.

• Nicolas MalebrancheRelated: Occasionalism denies that mind and body directly cause changes in one another.

• Philosophy of natureRelated: Nature’s relation to mind is a central boundary question for this inquiry.

• Substance theoryRelated: Substance theories offer influential answers by classifying mind and body as entities or properties.

• Mechanism (philosophy)Related: A mechanical account of bodies sharpened questions about whether thought fits within physical explanation.

• Margaret CavendishRelated: Her account of matter makes thought and perception properties of nature rather than immaterial exceptions.

• Emil du Bois-ReymondRelated: His account of the limits of explaining consciousness made this problem central to his public scientific legacy.

• Mind (mental faculty)Related: It frames the central question of how mental life relates to bodily life.

• Julien Offray de La MettrieRelated: His account rejects a separate immaterial mind in favor of bodily organization.

• Modern philosophyRelated: Modern accounts of mind turned on whether thought and matter are distinct substances.

• RealityRelated: Its answers determine whether reality is purely physical or includes irreducibly mental features.

• Matter (philosophy)Related: Matter becomes contentious when theories must explain how it relates to mind.

• On the SoulRelated: The treatise’s account of soul as a body’s form offers a distinctive alternative to substance dualism.

• Religious ScienceRelated: Religious Science’s claims about thought and conditions raise questions about mind’s relation to embodied life.

• Phineas Parkhurst QuimbyRelated: Quimby’s healing theory depended on mind exerting influence over bodily health.