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Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind. The Mind/Body Problem. Overview. The Mind/Body Problem Some Possible Solutions Dualist Solutions Monist Solutions. The Mind/Body Problem. How are the mind and body related? How can mental events cause physical events? How can physical events cause mental events?

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Philosophy of Mind

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  1. Philosophy of Mind The Mind/Body Problem

  2. Overview • The Mind/Body Problem • Some Possible Solutions • Dualist Solutions • Monist Solutions

  3. The Mind/Body Problem • How are the mind and body related? • How can mental events cause physical events? • How can physical events cause mental events? • Is the mind a computer program? Could a machine think?

  4. Solutions to the Mind Body Problem • Dualism • Substance Dualism: The world contains two fundamentally different kinds of “stuff” – mental stuff (minds) and physical stuff. • Property Dualism: The world contains two fundamentally different kinds of properties – mental properties and physical properties • Monism • Idealism: The world consists entirely of minds and mental states. • Physicalism/Materialism: The world consists entirely of the physical; there are no nonmaterial minds. • Neutral Monism: There is only one kind of stuff in the world, and it is not best described as physical or as mental.

  5. Substance Dualism • There are two fundamental kinds of stuff – mental stuff (minds) and physical stuff (such as bodies). • The Problem of Interaction • Some Solutions • Interactionism • Epiphenomenalism • Occasionalism

  6. Physicalism • The world is the physical world; there are only physical objects and their properties. • Physicalist Explanations • Behaviorism • Reductive Physicalism • Functionalism • Eliminative Materialism

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