Test #2 Study Guide Flashcards
Rationalism is based on what?
Reason
Empiricism is based on what?
Senses
Define process metaphysics
Everything is becoming and changing, reality consists of events
Define substance metaphysics
Based on objects and things; everything has quantity, quality, relationship, place, and time
Parmenides and Zeno believe what?
Only one exists; thought and being are the same
Name one of Zeno’s paradoxes
How can Achilles catch the Tortoise? In what space does an arrow move? How can we leave the room?
Describe Descartes’ beliefs
Dualism (mental and body foundations); “I think, therefore I am”
Describe Berkeley’s beliefs
Material substance does not exist; all that exists are minds and ideas; everything that we don’t perceive is being perceived by God
What is physicalism?
The belief that everything that exists is physical
Define Identity Theory
Mental states are brain states
Define Elimativism
Everything we think we know will be outdated by neuroscience
Define Behaviorism
Mental States only describe observable behavior
Define Functionalism
To have mental states is being able to predict them
Define Emergentism
Mental properties arise from brain processes, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Define Panpsychism
All we know is what we experience
