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61 Cards in this Set
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Cartesian dualism says that the mind is identical with the body. True or False? |
False |
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Cartesian dualism posits |
A body and a mind |
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Descartes says that the chief characteristic of physical things is that... |
They have extension |
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Descartes is convinced that corporeal things exist and that he has a body. True or False? |
True |
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Descartes asserts that he knows that he is a substance the whole essence of which is... |
To think |
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Descartes believed that interaction between body and mind took place in... |
The pineal gland |
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Descartes says that the mind is distinct from the body and... |
Can exist without the body |
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According to Descartes, the mind, or soul is... |
A thinking and un extended thing |
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The view that we consist of two distinct substances (body and mind) and that these two interact is know as... |
Substance dualism |
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The theory that says mental states are nothing but brain states is known as... |
Identity theory |
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The existence of a form of mental illness known as multiple personality disorder seems to suggest that... |
The mind is divisible |
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According to Smart, the report of an "after-image" or "ache" is a report of... |
A brain process |
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The idea that mental states are dispositions to behave in particular, ways in certain circumstances is known as... |
Logical behaviorism |
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According to Fodor, in the functionalist view the psychology of a system depends not on the stuff it is made of but on... |
How the stuff is put together |
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Logical behaviorism is at odds with our common sense intuition that mental states... |
Cause behavior |
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Searle argues that the Chinese Room thought experiment shows that... |
The claims of strong AI are not plausible. |
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Nagel believes that the essence of the belief that bats have experience is that... |
There is something that it is like to be a bat |
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Nagel declares that the objective perspective is the true perspective. True or false? |
False |
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Regarding mind and body, most contemporary philosophers are |
Materialists |
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According to Block, functionalism is... |
Implausible |
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The biblical account of the soul is at odds with... |
Soul-body dualism |
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Descartes believes that consciousness must reside in the brain. True or false? |
True |
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Substance dualism and say to violate the scientific principle of... |
The casual closure of the physical. |
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Descartes thinks that something that is conceivable is logically possible, and something that is inconceivable is logically impossible. True or false? |
True |
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Fodor thinks that functionalism is a reductionist thesis. True or false? |
False |
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Nagel believes that the essence of the belief that bats have experience is that... |
there is something that it is like to be a bat |
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Traditional philosophies of mind can be divided into dualist theories and materialist theories. True or false? |
True |
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Nagel declares that the objective perspective is the true perspective. True or false? |
False |
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When Descartes reasons that it is conceivable that he could exist without his body, and that whatever is conceivable is logically possible he is offering... |
Conceivability argument |
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The contention that bodies and minds must be different things, because bodies can be divided into parts, but minds cannot is known as a... |
Divisibility argument |
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Nagel believes that knowledge of what it is like to be a bat can be required through scientific investigation. True or false? |
False |
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Searle believes in strong AI. True or false? |
False |
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Nagel's argument suggests that mental states can not be identical with brain states. True or false? |
True |
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Hard determinists and soft determinists agree that... |
My actions are all determined by prior events/states of affairs |
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Hard determinists and libertarians agree that... |
if determinism is true, then I cannot be held responsible for my actions |
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Libertarians and soft determinists agree that I can be held responsible for my actions. True or false? |
True |
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According to James, indeterminism allows that the world has... |
ambiguous possibilities |
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According to d'Holbach all the mental and moral attributes that people think are evidence for an immaterial soul are in fact... |
purely physical and natural |
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According to d'Holbach people always act according to... |
necessary natural laws |
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D'Holbach asserts that when we deliberate about a choice, our decision is free and undetermined true or false? |
False. |
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D'Holbach's view is that science precludes the notion of free will true or false |
true |
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The doctrine that every event is determined or necessitated by proceeding events in the laws of nature is known.... |
Determinism |
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Rowe says that Lockean freedom exists solely at the level of action true or false? |
true |
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Stace thinks that determinism is incompatible with moral responsibility true or false |
False. |
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For the soft determinists to say that you could have done otherwise is to say that you would have done otherwise if... |
your desires had been different |
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Cartesian dualism |
the view that mind and body are completely independent of one another and interact casually |
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casual closure of the physical |
the principle that the world is a closed system of physical causes and effects |
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Epiphenomenalism |
the notion that mental properties do not cause anything but merely accompany physical processes |
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Functionalism |
The view that the mind is the functions that the brain performs |
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identity theory |
The view that mental states are identical to physical brain states |
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Logical behaviorism |
The idea that mental states are dispositions to behave in a particular way in certain circumstances |
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Physicalism |
the doctrine that every object an event in the world is physical |
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Mind-body problem |
The issue of what mental phenomena are and how they relate to the physical world |
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Multiple realizability |
The capacity to be realized or instantiated in a variety of forms and materials |
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property dualism |
The view that mental properties are non physical properties arising from but not reducible to physical properties |
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determinism |
the doctrine that every event is determined by preceding events in the laws of nature |
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hard determinism |
The view that free will does not exist that no one acts freely |
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Incompatibilism |
the view that if determinism is true, no one can act freely |
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Indeterminism |
the view that not every event is determined by preceding events in the laws of nature |
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soft determinism |
the view that although determinism is true or actions can still be free |
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Libertarianism |
the view that some actions are free, for they are ultimately caused are controlled by the person or agent |
