Physicalism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Dualism - ANSWER-- originally pioneered by Descartes - illustrates how the mind and body are compound substances -"mind can exist without the body and vice versa" - interaction/causation: pain is a neurological response at first, but then becomes real once the message has been relayed Physicalism - ANSWER-- mental states are not physical, therefore do not amount to anything - pain/fear/love/sadness/joy is all a form of the human physical mind and the biological reactions caused to form...

Christian Worldview, Culture, and Apologetics FinalAseity - correct answer God is self-existent Eternal - correct answer God is eternal; God created time; He has always existed and always will Theistic Attributes - correct answer aseity, eternal, infinite, immaterial, immortal, ineffable, simple, covenantal, and necessary Infinity - correct answer God is infinite; God has no essential limits in HIs nature Immaterial - correct answer God is immaterial; God made all matter, and is not ...

Christian Worldview, Culture, and Apologetics Final CWCA Wallace Spring Aseity - ANS-God is self-existent Eternal - ANS-God is eternal; God created time; He has always existed and always will Theistic Attributes - ANS-aseity, eternal, infinite, immaterial, immortal, ineffable, simple, covenantal, and necessary Infinity - ANS-God is infinite; God has no essential limits in HIs nature Immaterial - ANS-God is immaterial; God made all matter, and is not comprised of it (for He is Spirit) I...

Physicalism - ANSWER-Mental states can be explained in terms of physical states. Physical states are more fundamental than mental states Dualism - ANSWER-Mental states and physical states are equally "real" and ontologically independent from each other Ontological - ANSWER-The argument of being Idealism - ANSWER-Mental states are more fundamental than physical states Substance Dualism - ANSWER-Minds are non-extended thinking substances. Mind substance is more difficult to describe ...

Explain the old fact/new guise physicalist response to the knowledge argument. (1) Knowledge Argument - - Frank Jackson - Mary scenario (black, white, gray room with a TV where she learns every physical detail possible) - She leaves room and experiences colors (sees a red tomato) - Objection to physicalism in favor of dualism: She does learn new things when leaving the room - Physicalism cannot explain phenomenal consciousness (the subjective experience of sensations such as color) Expla...

Mind Body Theory - ANSWER-Points of view that attempt to solve mind body problems, usually by claiming that one or many statements are inaccurate, or that a statement need not be dependant on another. Examples are monism, dualism, idealism, phyccialism, hylomorphism... Mind Body Problem - ANSWER-How mind and body are connected. How we can connect the scientific knowledge we have gained through experimentation to our own subjective first person view of the world. There are many examples that m...

A* graded essay evaluating the physicalist theories of the metaphysics of mind. As it includes all the key points listed on the syllabus, it is a useful tool to study from in preparation for the 25 markers. Helped me achieve an A*.

Dualism - ANSWER--mind and body are distinct -material vs. immaterial "stuff" -substance vs. property Substance Dualism - ANSWER--mind and matter -can survive death of body -beliefs and desires are separate from physical material Property Dualism - ANSWER--material and not material properties -could not survive death of body -beliefs, desires, and physical material altogether Forms of Dualism - ANSWER-interactionism, epiphenomenalism, parallelism Interactionism - ANSWER--mos...

Cartesian dualism - ANSWER-Descartes's view that all of reality could ultimately be reduced to mind and matter. dualistic inter-actionsim - ANSWER-René Descartes, The view that there are two types of substances or realities in conscious beings, mind and matter, and that these interact with each other, the body producing mental events and the mind leading to physical actions. physicalism - ANSWER-(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality materialism - ANSWER...

- IB philosophy core theme essay on the mind-body problem - Band 7 essay (23/25) - Essay is structured with subtitles and bullet points