At the heart of Indian philosophy and religion is the idea of total and unconditional freedom (Nirvana in Buddhism and Moksha in Hinduism). It signifies a state of release from the life of pain and ...

Dualism holds that the mind and body are separate, with mental experiences not fully explained by physical processes alone. René Descartes popularized dualism by arguing the mind is non-physical while ...

Some time ago, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj expressed a view that Gita should be declared the “National Scripture” of India. Now, the government is contemplating to declare Adi ...

This chapter begins by setting out and explaining the doctrine of "substance dualism", according to which the mind and the brain are distinct and mutually independent "substances". It then examines ...

The term “mind” has no place in the fields of science and health, says Joe Gough, a PhD student of philosophy at the University of Sussex. Using the term, he argues, contributes to the vagueness in ...