What is a Person? (contd..)

Thus, it is clear that Strawson would certainly reject the contention that mental attributes are reducible to physical attributes because Strawson admit that the concept of persons non-material. But here the question arises, does Strawson wish to say that person are bodies of a certain sort, namely, bodies which have mental attributes as only?

Strawson holds that persons have bodily attributes too. But unlike ordinary bodies, persons are things, which have mental attributes as well. According to Strawson, it is essential to persons that they be entities, which necessarily have both mental and bodily attributes. In addition, those mental things are essentially different from physical things? They are different types of substance. Persons are radically different material bodies. Strawson’s theory looks like dualistic in holding that there are two different types of subjects, the physical bodies and persons.