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20 Cards in this Set
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Compare and Contrast Dualism and Materialism
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Dualism - Reality contains both mental and material things; Interaction of mind and material
Materialism - Material Objects are all that exist; Branch of monism |
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What is Idealism
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Idealism is a doctrine in the branch of monism (not dualism) that states minds/mental is all that exist, no material
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Identity Theory
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Theory that mental states are brain states - Replaced logical behaviorism, which could not account for that mental states affect behavior - Does not provide analysis for meaning of mental terms
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Eliminative Theory
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Doctrine that there are no mental states - Claims Reductive theories of minds failed b/c mental terms don't refer to anything - No reduction from phys. to mental b/c there is nothing to reduce
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What is qualitative Content? What does it Show?
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The "felt: quantity of certain mental states - If you don't have approp. "feelings" or Q.C. then you aren't in a certain mental state - Feelings are relevant to mental states=logical behaviorism is implausible b/c mental states are more than behavioral disposition
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Mind Body Problem
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Philosophical problem for explaining how it is possible for material object to have a mind - How can a nonphysical mind interact with a physical body
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What is indescernability of Identicals
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If two things are identical then they must possess same properties
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What is property dualism and how does it differ from substance dualism?
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-Doctrine that there is only one substance and it's physical. This physical substance has phys. and mental states
-Substance dualism believes 2 kinds of substance (phys. + nonphysical) |
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What's Intentionality? What Does it Show?
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-Prop. of mental states that make them about something - Mental states refer to something and can be directed at nonexistent obj. unlike phys. states
-Intentionality of a mental state cannot be determined by its function |
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How does logical behaviorism try to answer the mind-body problem?
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-Material obj. can have a mind b/c mental states are nothing more than having behavioral dispositions
-Altogether a materials theory |
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Turing Test Shows...
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Nothing more to being intelligent than being able to use language as we do
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Block's Conversational Jukebox Show?
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Nothing more to being intelligent than just producing a certain output relative to a certain input - If output is not produced in a way that req. then it is not intelligence (disproves Turing test)
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Searle's Chinese Room Shows..
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Passing Turing test is not a sign of intelligence
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Rorty's Demons Purport to Show...
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-Supports eliminative materialism
-Minds can be eliminated from our explanation of behavior -Modern Science can explain all in pain/demon theories w/o referring to demons or pain |
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Block's Chinese Nation
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-Functionalism is false; Having a right source of functional organ isn't a suff. cond for having a mind
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Essential Properties of Bodies and Minds
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-E.P. - A property a thing cannot lose without ceasing to exisy
-Mind - Thinking -Body - Volume |
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Occam's Razor
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-Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity
-Shouldn't assume existence of something not needed to explain phenomena -Shaves off unneeded entities from theories |
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Absent Qualia Objection Shows...
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-Possible for something to be functionally equivalent to a human being and yet have no conscious experience
-Can have all functional properties of a functional state w/o and qualitative content |
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What does Inverted Spectrum Purport Show?
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-Functionalism is false: Something can be functionally equivalent to a human being but also have the wrong/different conscious experience
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What is Functionalism? Strengths? Weaknesses?
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-Doctrine that mental states are functional states
-Mental States can cause behaviors and other mental states -Strengths: Recognizes causal role of mental states Weakness: Doesn't answer whether there's more to having a mind than being able to perform certain functions |
