Metaphysics

Question 1

Compatabilism

Answer 1

Determinism is true but we are also responsible for our actions

Question 2

Determinism

Answer 2

Every event is the necessary consequence of prior causes

Question 3

Eliminativism

Answer 3

A form of physicalism that denies the existence of a non-physical mind and also jettisons language that refers to the mind

Question 4

Functionalism

Answer 4

Mental states are constituted by the role they play

Question 5

Hard determinism

Answer 5

Free will is necessary for people to be held morally responsible for their own actions and that there is no free will (due to determinism)

Question 6

Idealism

Answer 6

Reality is entirely mental or spiritual

Question 7

Identity theory / reductionism

Answer 7

Claims about the mind can be reduced to claims about brain states

Question 8

Incompatabilism

Answer 8

Determinism is not compatible with free will

Question 9

Interactionism

Answer 9

Mind and body interact with each other even though they are distinct entities

Question 10

Libertarianism

Answer 10

Human choices are not causally determined by prior events

Question 11

Materialism

Answer 11

Reality consists only of material entities

Question 12

Metaphysical dualism

Answer 12

Reality consists of two types of substances

Question 13

Metaphysical monism

Answer 13

Reality only consists of one type of substance

Question 14

Mind-body dualism

Answer 14

Mind and body are separate entities

Question 15

Physicalism

Answer 15

Everything, including the human self, is physical.

All things that exist are entities recognised by physics.

Question 16

Substance Physicalism

Answer 16

All they exists is bits of matter in space-time and aggregate structures of the same