Experiential Event Dualism

Stimulations of our sense organs are events that cause brain events that cause our experiences, which are also events. The first part of this paper explains commitments required for the best form of dualism that keeps these facts clearly in view. The second part of this paper addresses two matters that may seem to threaten the viability of the view established in the first part: unity of consciousness and alleged pre‐reflective self‐consciousness. It is shown how to account for these matters in a way that is consistent with the dualism described in the first part of the paper. The resulting view supports fundamental clarifications in our understanding of consciousness.