Scholars
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- Created on: 14-04-18 13:11
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- Scholars
- Descartes
- Dualist (Cartesian Dualism)
- Indivisibility Argument
- Conceivability Argument
- Ryle
- Soft Behaviourism
- Huxley
- Defends Descartes’ thesis that we can explain animal’s behaviour in purely physical terms
- Huxley likens conscious experiences to the whistle on a steam train and the body to the train itself
- Hempel
- Hard Behaviourism/Logical Positivism
- Putnam
- Defends the functionalist account of mental states
- A critic of analytic behaviourism
- Super-Spartans
- Churchland
- “How can I assess what Mary will know and understand if she knows everything there is to know about the brain?
- Jackson
- Knowledge Mary Argument (Thought Experiment)
- Argues that the intrinsic nature of certain mental states - qualia - is irreducible, cannot be simplified.
- Chalmers
- Philosophical zombies
- Smart
- The mind is the brain, so each mental state or process is literally one and the same thing as a state or process within the brain.
- Numerical and qualitative identity
- Leibniz
- Physicalism is an incomplete account of what there is in the world, and we need to posit a nonphysical mind, a ‘simple substance’ to locate consciousness
- Persuaded by the idea that the mind is a distinct substance from the body and that causal interaction between two substances is impossible
- Descartes
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