Details Title: Exam 3, Question 1 Description: n/a Total Flash Cards: 23 Created: 04/14/2009 20:05:09		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Philosophy Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Mind-body problem Definition how do we account for our rich mental lives-the beliefs, desires, jealousies, abstract thought, conscious volition, extensive language abilities, awareness of all above mentioned Term Mind-body problem Definition What is the relationship between the mind and body? Term TSA (team of sciences argument) Definition Human persons are more than their physical bodies Term how the mind & body relate Definition interactionism- theory that the immaterial mind is able to casually affect the material body Term interactionism modles Definition 1. pilot-in-a-ship, mind is in the body   2.cartesian model- mind and body are intermingled (substance dualism) Term substance dualism/Cartesian dualism Definition theory that humans are the "conjoining" or two metaphysically different substances- the mind (self-conscious) and body (non-thinking) Term it seems mistaken to attribute physical characteristics to our mental lives because they aren't _________ located. we are undeniably physical beings, but there must be something about us that is not physical. Definition spacially Term for Cartesian dualism (Des Carte's divisibility argument)  Definition main difference between mind & body is that they aren't identical because one is indivisible and the other is divisible Term Leibniz's law Definition if two things are not exactly the same thing, they cannot be the same thing Term problem of substance dualism Definition indivisibility of the mind premise is questionable... multiple personality disorder  Term property dualism Definition mental lives exist in conjunction with the body as a physical (brain) and non-physical substance Term philosophies of the mind, materialism Definition hold that the TSA is flawed, and our rich mental lives can be adequately explained through science and physical theory Term Pillars of materialism Definition 1. Ockham's razor- the more simple/elegant, the better   2. Scientific explanation- science will eventually explain everything in physical or analogous terms Term eliminative materialism Definition all references to the mental as traditionally conceived should be eliminated and replaced by scientific terms of neurobiology Term Paul Churchland for eliminative materialsm Definition folk psychology does not adequately explain our mental experience Term criticism of eliminative materialism Definition self-defeating Term reductive materialism, identity theory Definition mental states identical to brain states; for any mental state, there is a corresponding brain state to which it is identified Term For reductive materialism Definition Term Criticism of reductive materialism Definition Term functionalism Definition mental events best described as casual relationships between a person's situational input & behavioral output Term for functionalism Definition Term against functionalism Definition Term being john malkovich Definition