Possible double-aspect theorists include: •
Baruch Spinoza, who believed that Nature or God (
Deus sive Natura) has infinite aspects, but that Extension and Mind are the only aspects of which we have knowledge. •
Arthur Schopenhauer, who considered the fundamental aspects of reality to be Will and Representation. •
David Bohm, who used
implicate and explicate order as a means of displaying dual-aspects. •
Gustav Fechner •
Mark Solms, neuropsychoanalyst, for whom dual-aspect monism represents a matrix of ontological juxtaposition of psychoanalytical and neuroscientific knowledge from two distinct perspectives: looking from the inside and looking from the outside. •
George Henry Lewes •
Thomas Jay Oord - calls his version "Material-Mental Monism" •
John Polkinghorne •
Brian O'Shaughnessy on the dual aspect theory of the Will •
Thomas Nagel •
David Chalmers, who explores a double-aspect view of information, with similarities to
Kenneth Sayre's information-based neutral monism •
J. A. Scott Kelso, The Complementary Nature (MIT Press, 2006) attempts to reconcile what it calls "the philosophy of complementary pairs" with the science of coordination dynamics.
Pauli-Jung conjecture Pauli and Jung's approach to dual-aspect monism has a very specific further feature, namely that different aspects may show a
complementarity in a quantum physical sense. That is, the Pauli-Jung conjecture implies that with regard to mental and physical states there may be incompatible descriptions of different parts that emerge from the whole. This stands in close analogy to
quantum physics, ==See also==