Philosophy of mind

been setting up plenty of theories to determine if the mind and the body are one. Substance dualism is one of those theories. Specifically, Descartes is a dualist who brings up the indivisibility argument about the mind that has been trusted until science is well developed. Even though Descartes’ argument is well-accepted, it is not strongly supported by factual evidence, and it is easily defeated by a simple question, which is how the mind and the body interact if they are distinctly separate.…

argue, the human brain and the human mind are two separate entities present in the human body. To demonstrate this point I put forward the following supportive position. The brain and mind of human beings are different from each other. That the brain and mind have distinct roles in human beings. For the first counter argument, I will consider the physical aspect of materialism in regards to the mind and brain. As a response, I will reply, that the human mind and brain are separate, because human…

Even though the Meditations First on Philosophy was published in 1641 by René Descartes, he started working on this book in 1639, as revolution of sorts that ended with the Prince of Orange intervening on René’s behalf. This “controversy led Descartes to post two open letters against his enemies” that got him to involve a Prince and Princess, and charges where raised that “stemmed from various misunderstandings about his method and the supposed opposition of his theses to Aristotle,” the things…

History of Psychology Centuries ago philosophers began trying to understand and explain how the human mind and body works; they raised many of the questions still asked by researchers today. Questions that ranged from: Do the two, mind and body, work together or tandem with each other? Do we objectively or subjectively study the mind and how it works? What is most important, the natural order of the mind and body or the nurturing of a person? All of these philosophical questions are related to…

phenomena as “the arising novel and coherent structures, patterns, and properties during the process of self-organisation in complex systems” (Goldstein, Emergence as a Construct, 1999). Emergent materialism is a theory which dictates that the human mind is an “irreducible existent” (Massaro, 2010), John R. Searle presents emergent materialism as middle ground between materialism and dualism, the difference being that emergent materialism argues that consciousness is ontologically reducible in…

Part One: Area of Philosophy In the event of the terrible accident on Hooper avenue, the doctors have done medical magic to save the person who was killed by the cement truck by transplanting their brain into the person of the opposite gender who had a stroke upon witnessing this event. While the mere act of even doing this type of transplant would fall under the philosophy branch of ethics, what we are talking about today my friends is what the result of this transplant and how would this…

debate of mind and body was a serious subject to the philosophers of primitive times. There are several theories which have attempted to justify their perception in this regard. One of them is the theory of dualism by Descartes while the one totally negating is Churchland’s theory of Materialism. Churchland’s theory sounds much more believable and justified in the advanced era. Descartes theory of mind and body demonstrates that mind and body are two totally distinct things. The mind is meant…

One of the major questions in the philosophy of mind is how people come to understand one another and engage in social cognition. Gallagher, Varga, Fuchs, and De Jaegher all attempt to address this question by embracing a conception of sociality that holds that people come to understand each other and engage in collective meaning-making through robust second-person interactions. In this paper, I will attempt to show that such a conception of sociality can address many of the problems that have…

be explaining and evaluating Argument 2, on page 36 of Jaegwon Kim's Philosophy of Mind, which supports Cartesian substance dualism. This argument, which I call the argument of transparency, attempts to support the first major tenant of Cartesian substance dualism: There are substances of two fundamentally different kinds in the world, mental substances and material substances—or minds and bodies. The essential nature of a mind is to think, be conscious, and engage in other mental activities;…

Descartes’ idea that the mind and body are separate is called the “mind-body dualism”. Dualism is the state of being divided, meaning that our mind as humans, and our body are not used as one, but accent each other to make us what we are. He has different arguments in Meditations On First Philosophy that the mind is its own thing and different than the body and brain. He reassures that the mind, as we know, is a thing we use to think and the body is not what we use to think. Therefore, making…