In a lecture given for the Society of Catholic Scientists, Ed Feser lays out his argument for the immateriality of thought in simple, syllogistic form. Since he does not provide the actual syllogism in his (very good) paper on the topic, I thought I would jot it down here for future reference:
- Nothing material can have an exact or unambiguous conceptual content.
- Formal thought processes can have an exact or unambiguous conceptual content.
- Therefore, formal thought processes are not material.
I think this is one of the more interesting arguments for dualism out there today; I wish it received more of the attention so often devoted to (for example) the Zombie argument.
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