A Criticism of the Theory of Non-alternative Monism

One of the questions discussed in the philosophy of mind is how to ontologically explain the states of mind. New theories have been proposed in the philosophy of West to explain this issue, the most important of which are: behaviorism, the identity of mind and body, functionalism and eliminativism. In the meantime, John Searle and Davidson believe in non-alternative Monism and consider mind as one of the non-physical features of soul. Using intellectual method, the present paper tries to explain and criticize the theory of non-alternative monism by. It concludes that the subjective attributes of soul cannot be considered material because the proofs provided by the proponents of aforementioned theory are incomplete and do not prove their claims. Therefore, reducing abstract realities into material things is not rational.