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
1.
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)
Tilburg University
Bachelor’s Psychology
Course code: 500251-B-5
, 1
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
1.
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)
2.
Empiricism -> knowledge comes from sensory experience
Primary properties -> independent from the observer (e.g., temperature)
