Dualist - 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...

These are my exact revision notes for UNIT 2 that helped me achieve an A. I hope they're helpful.

This was written in year 12, achieving an A+ grade and debating whether situation ethics is too individualistic

Plato (human nature) - ANSWER Rationalist Descartes (human nature) - ANSWER Rationalist Locke (human nature) - ANSWER empiricist - blank slate Hobbes (human nature) - ANSWER State of nature - bad Rousseau (human nature) - ANSWER State of nature - good Darwin (human nature) - ANSWER irrational - evolution Descartes (mind/body) - ANSWER Substance dualist - mind does not depend on body Searle (mind/body) - ANSWER mind depends on body Socrates (mind/body) - ANSWER Mind is slave to body Denn...

consciousness - ANSWER-to be conscious is to have subjective experiences; if something is conscious, it must feel like something to be the thing in question... mental states - ANSWER-the states of your conscious mind that have some feeling to you. (subjective) brain states - ANSWER-the physical and functional states of your brain. (objective) nagel's key claim - ANSWER-we cannot really know what it is like to be a bat (in terms of what it feels like), no matter how much we know about h...

Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science Exam Study Guide Psychology - Ans:-Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Systematic Observation - Ans:-Methodical examination to discern patterns in behavior. Hypothesis Driven Research - Ans:-Research based on testable predictions and theories. Anecdotal Evidence - Ans:-Personal accounts not scientifically validated. Nativist - Ans:-Belief in innate knowledge at birth. Monist - Ans:-Philosophy asserting only physical matter exi...

BELL QUIZ 1-1 correct answer: True or False: The discipline of bioethics is the study of the biological sciences and how biology provides answers to our ultimate questions about the meaning of life. includes some study of the biomedical/logical sciences. correct answer: False True or False: The discipline of bioethics includes environmental or ecological ethics and the study of the good stewardship of Earth, of agriculture and in fact, of the whole biosphere of living things. correct an...

PSB 4240 Exam#1 New Update 2023 with Complete Solutions Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. had lasting impairments in: - CORRECT ANSWER attention Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one of those? - CORRECT ANSWER mycology Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the: - CORRECT ANSWER corpus callosum The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called: - CORRECT ANSWER gyri The corpus callosum...

Hylas - correct answera materialist- someone who believes in addition to minds and ideas, on one hand, there is matter and motion on the other hand. A dualist Philonous - correct answerlover of mind, represents Berkeley, there are minds and objects of their perception( ideas) What is the purpose of the Dialogues: - correct answerDialogue 1= Attack on the competing materialist view Dialogue 2/3: Berkeley develops his own positive idealist/ immaterialist theory What are the parts of Dial...

Fire and the mist - Answer Anaximander Asks whether the purpose of art is or ought to be representative or non-representative - Answer Aesthetics Arguably the forefather(s) of modern chemistry - Answer Leucippus and Democritus The manner of Socrates's death - Answer Ingested hemlock (suicide) All physical things have measurable properties - Answer Pythagoras Pluralist (more than two basic substances) - Answer Empedocles Monist - Answer Thales DUalist - Answer Plato Which...