Keywords

Question 1

Soul

Answer 1

Often, but not always, understood to be the non-physical essence of a person.

Question 2

Consciousness

Answer 2

awareness or perception

Question 3

Substance

Answer 3

A subject which has different propeties attributed to it.

Question 4

Dualism

Answer 4

The beleif that reality can be divided into two distinct parts, such as good and evil, physical and non-physical.

Question 5

Substance dualism

Answer 5

The beleif that the mind and the body both exist as two distinct and seperate realities.

Question 6

Scepticism

Answer 6

A questioning approach which does not take assumptions for granted

Question 7

Materialism

Answer 7

The beleif that only physical matter exists, and that the mind can be eplained in physical terms as chemical activity in the brain.

Question 8

Reductive materialism

Answer 8

Otherwise known as identity theory- the view that mental events are identical with physical occurences in the brain.

Question 9

Category error

Answer 9

A problem of language that arises when things are talked about as if they belong to one category when in fact they belong to another.