Study Guide Philosophy of Mind
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1.1 What is Philosophy of Mind? 1.2 Terminology 1.3 The Mind-Body Problem 2. Cartesian Dualism 2.1 Dualism 2.2 Substance 2.3 Descartes’s Meditations 2.4 A Modal Argument 2.5 Concluding Remarks 3. Mental Causation 3.1 Descartes on the Union of Mind and Body 3.2 Princess Elisabeth’s Objection 3.3 The Closure of Physics 3.5 Epiphenomenalism 4. Reductive Physicalism 4.1 Automata 4.2 Three Reasons for Reductive Physicalism 4.3 A Dualist Rejoinder 5. Two Physicalisms and Two Theories of Events 5.1 Type and Token Physicalism 5.2 Events: Particulars or Property Instantiations? 5.3 The Relations between Them 5.4 Anomalous Monism 6. Non-Reductive Physicalism 6.1 Multiple Realisability 6.2 Functionalism 6.3 The Computational Theory of the Mind 6.4 Mental Causation Again: The Exclusion Argument 7. Physicalism and Experience 7.1 The Phenomenal Quality of Experience 7.2 Problems for Physicalism 7.3 Physicalist Replies 7.4 Higher Order Theories of Consciousness 7.5 Eliminativist Physicalism 8. Intentionality 8.1 Mental Content 8.2 Interpretivism 8.3 Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental |