I don't think it is a matter of political correctness? I think dualism suffers from the idea that two distinct substances interact**...which isn't necessarily for transmission/filter models or really even a body/soul distinction.
Dualism as a term, and as conceived by Descartes, is a non-starter even among many proponents. I also don't think most of our ancestors were thinking of distinct substances in a philosophical sense - they were, it seems to me, thinking of a body and soul.
All that said there is the New Dualism website which is a great resource.
**Of course how things of the same substance interact is also a mystery, and it seems odd to consider forces / Laws of Nature / matter / fields to all be the same substance under Physicalism...
Dualism as a term, and as conceived by Descartes, is a non-starter even among many proponents. I also don't think most of our ancestors were thinking of distinct substances in a philosophical sense - they were, it seems to me, thinking of a body and soul.
All that said there is the New Dualism website which is a great resource.
**Of course how things of the same substance interact is also a mystery, and it seems odd to consider forces / Laws of Nature / matter / fields to all be the same substance under Physicalism...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell