Mind-Body problem

Question 1

Two features of cartesianism

Answer 1

1. Immateriality of the soul
2. The seperation of the outside world and the inside mind

Question 2

ontology

Answer 2

The study of what really exists (idea that mind and soul are different entities)

Question 3

epistemology

Answer 3

study of what we know and how we can know it (doubt)

Question 4

interaction problem

Answer 4

something immaterial influences something material, whilst in a different realm of reality

Question 5

para-mechanical hypothesis

Answer 5

hypothesis that suggests that behaviour and the mind are merely causally connected

Question 6

behaviorism in philosophy

Answer 6

studying behavior is studying the mind

Question 7

logical behaviorism

Answer 7

different mind concepts are a behavioral tendency called a disposition

Question 8

identity theory

Answer 8

mental states can be understood as brain processes

Question 9

multiple realisation theory

Answer 9

counterargument of type identity/ how can dogs and humans both feel pain, but having different brain structures?

Question 10

functionalism

Answer 10

mind and mental states should not be conceptualised in terms of what the mind is made of. We should understand them in terms of what they do

Question 11

access consciousness

Answer 11

something that you could verbalize

Question 12

phenomenal consciousness

Answer 12

what-it-is-likeness/ a subjective quality of experience

Question 13

eliminativism

Answer 13

mind-body problem is a non-problem resulting from our use of folk psychology