Here’s some useful reading to help with the study of the Mind-Body problem and Dualism:

Mind and Body Cartesian Dualism at www.blutner.de — a useful summary in slides which includes a number of challenges to Cartesian dualism

Descartes and the Mind Body Problem — New York University, Wayne Waxman’s course on the History of Modern Philosophy.

From Philosophy Now — Consciousness Resurrected — Güven Güzeldere asks where we are now with the mind-body problem.

While the mind-body problem has been around for a long time, it is no less compelling for philosophers today. This is not to say that we are in the same place with regard to understanding it as the philosophers of bygone ages. On the contrary, there has been impressive progress. This progress has been due to great advances in the scientific understanding of the workings of the brain, and to the continual refinement of our philosophical concepts and of the questions we ask about the mind. For these reasons, can we now say that the mind-body problem is nearing a (re)solution, and probably won’t be among the open-ended puzzles of 21st century philosophy?

Psychology Today — Is Your Mind Separate From Your Body?

Which raises another question — what’s the relationship between psychology and philosophy? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.