Philosophy of mind

This belief in philosophy that the mind, soul, or conscious is independent from the body is referred to as Cartesian dualism; in other words, if the body dies the mind does not. Trying to distinct the mind from the body has been a topic in philosophy since Rene Descartes, one of the most influential founders. In one of Descartes first essays, the ‘Second Meditation: Of the Human Mind’, he wrote about how he believed that the mind and the body were two separate entities and self is distinct from…

The mind body problem remains a problem in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. What is the association amongst the physical domain and the mind or consciousness? Is the mind and body one substance as monism disputes? Alternatively, are the mind and body separate as dualism claims? These contrasting doctrines (monism and dualism) have come to an impasse many times. In an essay called What it is Like to be a Bat, the philosopher Thomas Nagel offers a thought experiment that materialist…

KNOWLEDGE NAME - DIVYANSHU SHARMA ROLL NUMBER – 2013034 JOURNAL ON THE MIND BODY PROBLEM EMPHASISING ON DESCARTES Descartes believed that a person or human being such as you or me is a two-part composite, of a mind and a body or to put it simple a person is just the mind but has a body. And according to him, the mind is an entirely immaterial, nonphysical thing or simply a collection of information. What unites the mind with our body is that it causally interacts with the body.…

Philosophy sheds light on many themes, one of the issues philosophy contends is the understanding how mind and body are related. Rene Descartes, a father of philosophical ideology devised “The Argument from Introspection” to attempt to answer such question. The argument from introspection explains that the mind and body are two entirely separate states and therefore cannot be identical to one another. Descartes’ rationale behind the argument is that the body is separable because it can be…

In chapter 4 of LADTE, D'Souza presents three concrete statements from the viewpoints of many scientific point of views, like neuroscience, philosophy, and morality. He supports his claim by examining the reason behind people's near-death experiences (NDEs), with the the theories from brain science, physics, biology, psychology, history, and philosophy. He believes that life after death exists, and that it can be beneficial. He discovered many expert testimony, that accounts of near-death…

When we think of the science of philosophy we often ponder its use. Other sciences such as biology and physics explore the universe and our reality so we can better understand the environment around us and what our physical state is. When we began to wonder what our inner thoughts were, we created psychology to understand the human nature; however, that still was not enough. We longed for more. Philo is Greek for love, while sophia means wisdom. Philosophy is defined as the love of wisdom.…

for my Minds, Bodies, and Persons course multiple times, highlighting central ideas and scribbling down confusions and random thoughts at the margin. I remember laying out the central arguments and supporting details on a piece of blank paper and weaving arrows around as if I were analyzing a mathematical proof. And I remember discussing and exchanging ideas (sometimes fervently) with the professor and classmates in and after class. I look back very fondly on my first encounter with philosophy…

problem of other minds, one-way causation, non-interaction and difference in qualities of experience has meant that the mind-body problem has yet to find a single theory solution. While scholars such as Smart (1959), Foster (1991), and Graham (1998) argue that the principles of parsimony and simplicity “decide overwhelmingly in favour of the [identity] theory” (Smart, 1959, p. 156), others have taken a different approach leading to ‘mind-body pessimism’, or the idea that philosophy and human…

The view of physicalism gives a stronger and more plausible answer to the mind-body problem. There are several reasons why this particular view gives a more sensible for answer to the problem at hand. These reasons include the rationale behind the reasoning of brain research, how the different aspects of reductive physicalism is able to address the non-physical aspects of the mind, as well as the less than sensible claims that the opposing view, dualism, presents in comparison. One of the main…

Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo. 2008. “Descartes’s Substance Dualism and His Independence Conception of Substance.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 46, no. 1 (2008) 69-90. In the presented article, Rodriguez-Pereyra argues that the independence conception of substance is crucial for the success of the separability argument. Rodriguez-Pereyra continued by breaking down the thesis into two aims: 1) Descartes’s independence conception is that a is a created or dependent substance if and…