Philosophy Exam 2 Chapter 7 Mind, Body & Consciousness Exam Questions and Answers
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Philosophy Of Mind
philosophy of mind - ANSWER-a subfield of metaphysics that focuses on questions concerning the nature of personhood, especially in regard to the relationship between the mind (non-physical) and the body (physical), the nature of the self, consciousness, and artificial intelligence.
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Philosophy Exam 2 Chapter 7 Mind, Body & Consciousness Exam Questions
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philosophy of mind - ANSWER-a subfield of metaphysics that focuses on questions concerning the nature of personhood, especially in regard to the relationship between the mind (non-physical) and the body (physical), the nature of the self, consciousness, and artificial intelligence.
The Mind-Body Problem - ANSWER-The implicit, alleged contradictions that arise as a result of attempting to articulate the precise relationship between two seemingly different realities, the mind (traditionally conceived as non-physical) and the body (physical).
Leibniz's Law - ANSWER-The dictum that,if two things are identical (and so actually are the very same thing), they share all the same properties and fail to share none
Leibniz's Law - ANSWER-also known as the "indiscernability of identicals."
Philosophies of Mind - ANSWER-- Substance Dualism*
- Property Dualism
- Materialist Philosophy of Mind*
• Eliminative Materialism
• Reductive Materialism - Functionalism*
Substance Dualism - ANSWER-the theory that humans are a "conjoining" or "union" of two metaphysically different substances, the mind and the body.
Two basic arguments for Cartesian (substance) dualism - ANSWER-• The argument from doubt, in Descartes's Discourse on Method.
• The divisibility argument in Descartes's Meditations
Criticisms of Substance Dualism - ANSWER-- Contemporary psychology - multiple personality disorder seems to provide some evidence that the mind is not indivisible or unified in the manner suggested by Descartes.
- Contemporary neurobiology, side effects of severing the corpus callosum raises questions about the distinctness of the mind from the body.
- Why should we go along with Descartes in holding the view that it is unimaginable that
the mind is divisible in the first place? It seems that he begs the question of whether or not the mind is divisible.
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