Propositional attitude

Eliminative materialism is the view that in order to recognize and describe what exists in the world, it is necessary to eliminate anything mental, such as the mind, mental states and mental properties. In addition, eliminative materialism stresses on the assumption that folk psychology is an outdated theory that must be eliminated, as behaviours are neurological processes and not caused by mental states. In this paper, I will be criticizing eliminative materialism by explaining the importance of folk psychology as how it is necessary to understand mental states and decisions during certain situations. Folk psychology is the theory in which it explains the behaviours of humans and nonhumans according to their beliefs, desires and other propositional…

Poe’s “Hop-Frog” detests the standardized human’s virtue that was universally expressed in various forms of literatures. Hop-Frog’s controversial interpretation symbolizes sin and vice that mankind is susceptible to be exposed with. Likewise, the Dark Romanticism literatures convey a broader exploration into mankind’s minds by demonstrating how one is too fragile to allow his or her mind commands the behaviors. Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is an example of a Dark Romanticism literature that let…

B.A.R.K. is something every student must keep in mind to achieve academic success and encourage their classmates to achieve as well. Bark is an acronym for Belief, Awareness, Respect, and Kindness. Belief is believing in yourself, and in others. Awareness is being aware of your surroundings, and aware the people you interact with and impact. Respect is respecting yourself, others and treating everyone kindly. Kindness is not just being nice it’s helping others, always being considerate, and…

The approaches we’ve discussed in this course in regard to action, the causal approach and the qualitative approach, are each worthy of fierce debate. Despite the persuasiveness of each, I believe there is one that is slightly more attractive than the other. Charles Taylor characterized these two general approaches as looking for an answer to, “what is the nature of action? Or otherwise put, what distinguishes (human) action from other kinds of events” (Taylor, pg. 77-78)? Personally, I find…

Do people have propositional attitudes? How does the form cognitive science should take depend on the answer to this question? “We have no idea of how to explain ourselves to ourselves except in a vocabulary which is saturated with belief/desire psychology. One is tempted to transcendental argument: What Kant said to Hume about physical objects holds, mutatis mutandis, for the propositional attitudes; we can't give them up because we don't know how to. ” (source, Fodor) Propositional attitudes…

Persuasion isn’t all about being forceful, manipulative, or pushy, but about using subtle tactics to persuade people to do what you want while wanting to do it themselves. Persuasion is a tool that we use and listen to regularly. It’s used when we listen to ads or people promoting various items for sale, when we try to get a friend to join you on an outing, or even getting yourself to do an unwanted task. Persuasion is about “changing or reforming attitudes, beliefs, opinions, or behaviors…

1. The word persuasion turns some people off. What negative connotations can it have? Persuasion is a overwhelming push in daily life and has a major influence on society and a whole. Politics, legal decisions, mass media, news and advertising are all guided by the competence of persuasion, and influence us in turn. The negative connotations that it can have is the number of persuasive messages has grown tremendously, persuasive communication travels far more rapidly, and persuasion is more…

Attitudes determine how we act towards those objects, people and in certain situations. There are thought to be three components to attitudes: your thoughts and beliefs (the cognitive component), your feelings about the idea (the affective component) and how you act towards the idea (the behavioral component). These components are not always consistent with each other but it is perceived that when they are inconsistent it makes us feel an uncomfortable mental state that motivates us to reduce…

According to the ELM, individuals are likely to change their attitude in order to align with what is socially correct. If she is using a different brand of tampon as opposed to Tampax Radiant, she is not doing all that she can do to mask her period and thus “standing out”. In order for the consumer to perform the socially accepted task of hiding her menstrual cycle, she must switch to Tampax; it is framed as an essential choice. Though not all advertisements utilize both routes of persuasion,…

The main theoretical framework that we followed was the Cognitive Map Theory as the children had already learned about forestry so we were solidifying what they had learned and adding new bits of information to help with cohesion of the theory. We used many questions to gain insight as to what the children did and did not know. This method was used to trigger the mind maps of each student and help to draw on those concepts. We also incorporated the elaboration likelihood model in that most of…