Midterm 1

Question 1

Substance dualism

Answer 1

Philosophical position which holds that there are two distinct substances, mind and body

Question 2

Property dualism

Answer 2

Distinction between properties and substances, the mind has different properties than the body

Question 3

Epiphenomenalism

Answer 3

Subset of property dualism, brain states cause mental states but not the inverse

Question 4

Princess Elizabeths’ objection

Answer 4

How does the mind interact with an entirely different substance in the body?

Question 5

Philosophical behaviourism

Answer 5

Mental states are dispositions to behave in certain ways in context
- physicalist, attempts to understand what mental states are

Question 6

Methodological behaviourism

Answer 6

practical application of behaviourism to psychological research

Question 7

Functionalism

Answer 7

Mental states fill causal roles, with input, output and interconnection*

Question 8

Mental states

Answer 8

Human situations that imply consciousness

- beliefs, thoughts, ideas, ect

Question 9

Mindware

Answer 9

All those events or happenings we call as mental

Question 10

Philosophy

Answer 10

Systematic, analytical study of human existence and so on

Question 11

Philosophy of mind

Answer 11

study of mental events / states, consciousness, and properties of the mind

Question 12

Rez Cogitans

Answer 12

The mental substance to Descartes, a thinking thing, unextended, indivisible, ect.

Question 13

Materialists

Answer 13

All mental phenomena are reducible to physical matter (Hobbes, Marx)

Question 14

Empiricism

Answer 14

The notion of substances is problematic, may not be this simple

• Locke : two distinct substances
• Berkeley : Only the mind

Question 15

Behaviourism

Answer 15

Doctrines that emphasize the behaviours individuals are bound to output in certain events

Question 16

Mental substances

Answer 16

The substance that is consciousness, res cogitates according to Descartes