Mod 3. Materialism/Identity Theory Versus Functionalism

Question 1

If materialism is true then every mental state is —- to something physical.

Answer 1

Identical.

Question 2

Support for materialism) Even if dualism could explain the mind as well as materialism, the principal of simplicity would urge against dualism because of its superfluous and mysterious identities.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Why does dualism handle the problem worse?

Answer 3

Because it merely restates rather than explains the connection and in doing so adds further unexplained things.

Question 4

Multiple concepts can pick out the same object or property. T or F

Answer 4

True, for example water and H2O.

Question 5

What is the knowledge argument?

Answer 5

It’s that there would still be something we don’t know and can’t know: what it’s like to be a bat.

Ex: Mary grows up in a black and white room and learns the concepts of red. Same facts learned I. A different perspective.

Question 6

What is a philosophical zombie?

Answer 6

A being indistinguishable from a normal person from the outside perspective but possesses no conscious first person mental states. It argues against materialism and for dualism.

Question 7

What is the zombie argument against materialism?

Answer 7

•If materialism is true, qualifier states are physical. : Therefore an exact duplicate would necessarily have all the qualified states of the original.

•But we can conceive of a physical duplicate without the original’s qualities states. : So it could be true in some possible world.

•Thus, a physical duplicate would not necessarily have all the qualities states of the original. : So materialism is false.