Physicalism Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Folk Psychology - ANSWER-commonsense psychology, is a human capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people. Monism - ANSWER-a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance Physicalism/ Materialism - ANSWER-the philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties, and that the only existing substance is physical. A posteriori - ANSWER-relating to or denoting reasoning o...

Psych 85 Midterm 1What are some characteristics of a mind?What are the components of a representation?What is the tri-level of analysis? Be able to compare and contrast two different solutions to a computational problem at each level (e.g. multiplication in a computer and multiplication in your head)What is a criticism of the tri-level hypothesis?What are the components of the structural level of analysis?Can a computer have a mind in the same way that we have minds? What are the practical and t...

The present essay looks at the ongoing mind-body debate introduced to Western philosophy by Descartes. It focuses primarily on physicalism; more precisely on the mind-brain identity theory. Essay Level 7, Referencing style: Harvard

- IB philosophy core theme essay on the mind-body problem - Band 7 essay (23/25) - Essay is structured with subtitles and bullet points

The most sophisticated computing device in the (known) universe is Brain Which of these would not be considered part of 'Cognition'? Digestion Historically, Artificial Intelligence has been least successful at tasks that require Flexible Thinking Dramatic recent progress in artificial intelligence is largely based on computer programs that can learn rather than being programmed Idealism Physicalism Dualism Neutral monism Only the mind exists Only body Both mind and body exist sepa...

This document contains part of my A Level Philosophy Revision Booklet, namely, notes on Dualism. The topics covered include: Behaviourism, mind-brain type identity theory, eliminative materialism, functionalism, and evaluation of all of the above. This document, along with the rest of my revision booklet, enabled me to get an A* in the final exam. I hope you find it as useful as I did. :)

This document includes notes about the hard-problem of mind and body. It discusses Descartes, Behaviouralism, Identity Theory, Functionalism and property dualism and includes notes on the relevant readings as well

Descartes' argument for the existence of the body - ANSWER-Descartes argument for the existence of the body is divisible because he cannot think of a body except as having parts. -Sensible perception of ideas of external things, there are two faculties that a re involved: passive faculty of sensing [P] and active faculty of producing or bringing about ideas [A] -If A stays in "me", then I voluntarily produce or bring about the ideas of external things. Ideas of external things are involunt...

Course notes were taking in the Spring of 2023 for David Alexanders philosophy 201 course. These notes cover The Mind and go over different theories from different philosophers.