Summary Philosophy of Mind Key Concepts

Philosophy of Mind: Key Concepts




Tilburg University

Bachelor’s Psychology

Course code: 500251-B-5

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Main concepts 1–6:

Substance Dualism (SD) -> mind & body as independent from each other

Idealism -> physical world depends upon the mental world

Behaviorism -> mind is behavior

Reductionism / identity theory -> mental states are identical to brain states

Eliminativism -> there’s no mind

Functionalism -> mental states are realized by brain states

Connectionism -> mental states are states in a neural network

Embodied, Embedded, & Extended mind -> there’s more to mind than the brain



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Academic critical thinking -> engaging in meta-science by asking questions about your

discipline or field of study

Conscious experiences -> qualia

Cognitive states .> states with intentionality/aboutness

Emotions -> mental states that have qualitative character and intentionality

Substance -> that which can exist on its own

Occasionalism -> god as the true cause of events

Parallelism -> 2 parallel series of events (mental & physical)



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Empiricism -> knowledge comes from sensory experience

Primary properties -> independent from the observer (e.g., temperature)