Here Dr. Ralph Stefan Weir defends a conceptual argument for substance dualism, challenges property dualism, and responds to the causal closure argument for physicalism. Like the show? Help it grow! Consider becoming a patron (thanks!): https://www.patreon.com/majestyofreason If you wanna make a one-time donation or tip (thanks!): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josephcschmid OUTLINE 00:00 Intro 1:08 History of Ideas 3:18 Why Care? 5:46 Outline 9:10 Part 1: Conceptual Argument 17:14 Premise 1: Epistemic Gap 22:30 Premise 2: Bridge Premise 55:57 Mitigated modal skepticism 1:00:35 Part 2: Against Property Dualism 1:16:45 Phenomenal Disembodiment Argument 1:22:27 Quinean skepticism 1:31:00 Parity Argument 1:32:10 Part 3: Causal Closure 1:37:00 Systematic overdetermination? 1:45:28 Causal closure principle 2:16:58 Parsimony and uniformity 2:23:50 Conclusion 2:24:39 Bonus soccer RESOURCES (1) Ralph's PhilPapers profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/ralph-stefan-weir-1 (2) Ralph's Routledge book, "The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance": https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Body-Metaphysics-Routledge-Contemporary-Philosophy/dp/1032457686 (3) My Philosophy of Mind playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaqPW8ZSTTi1u2oKkRfN1yn (4) My Springer book: (a) https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs/dp/3031193148/ (b) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2 THE USUAL... Follow the Majesty of Reason podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/4Nda5uNcGselvKphtKSKvH Join the Discord and chat all things philosophy! https://dsc.gg/majestyofreason My website: https://josephschmid.com My PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/joseph-schmid