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- Created on: 28-03-19 16:59
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- PHYICALISM - OVERVIEW
- 1 OUT OF 4 PHYSICALISTTHEORIES
- MORAL LANGUAGE IS EQUIVALENT TO BEHAVIOUR -AL STATES (aka philosophicalbehavourism)
- This physicalism has 2 forms
- 1. Hard Behaviourism
- Hempel wanted to analytically reduce talk of mental states to talk of actually occurring physical states, as described by physics.
- Criticism
- Hempel’s analysis is circular
- Criticism
- Hempel wanted to analytically reduce talk of mental states to talk of actually occurring physical states, as described by physics.
- 2. soft Behaviourism
- Ryle wanted to analytically reduce talk of mental states to talk of actual and possible behaviours.
- 1. Hard Behaviourism
- dualist arguments AGANIST behaviourism
- substance dualism arguments
- Decartes' conceivability argument
- substance dualism arguments
- More arguments against Philo-sophical behaviourism
- Issues defining mental states satisfactorily 1 – Circularity when analyzing mental states
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- Ryle doesn’t wish to eliminate psychological language
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- Issues defining mental states satisfactorily 2 - multiple realisability
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- People with the same mental state behaviour in a similar way
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- Asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others mental states
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- There is no asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of others mental states
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- The conceivability of mental states without associated behaviour
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- But perfect actors are still disposed towards pain behaviour
- META CRITIQUE AGAINST Philosophical behaviourism
- Putnam’s super- Spartans and super-super-Spartan
- META CRITIQUE AGAINST Philosophical behaviourism
- But perfect actors are still disposed towards pain behaviour
- counter FOR Philosophical behaviourism
- Issues defining mental states satisfactorily 1 – Circularity when analyzing mental states
- This physicalism has 2 forms
- MORAL LANGUAGE IS EQUIVALENT TO BEHAVIOUR -AL STATES (aka philosophicalbehavourism)
- 1 OUT OF 4 PHYSICALISTTHEORIES
- MENTAL STATES ARE IDENTICAL WITH BRAIN STATES (aka mind -brain type identity theory)
- reduces mental states to physical states of the brain. It holds that mental states like pain are identical with particular types of physical state in the brain, say, C- fibers firing.
- CRITICISMS
- substance dualism arguments
- Decartes' conceivability argument
- property dualism arguments
- Chalmers’ philosophical zombies’ argu- ment
- Jackson’s knowledge argument
- Issues providing the type identities (the multiple realisability of mental states)
- substance dualism arguments
- A set of arguments
- Criticism: the location problem
- Counter (FOR) - it is odd (not wrong) to spatially locate mental states.
- MENTAL STATES ARE IDENTICAL WITH BRAIN STATES (aka mind -brain type identity theory)
- 1 OUT OF 4 PHYSICALISTTHEORIES
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