PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multiple Realizability, John Searle, If And Only If

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1200
• Professor: Nalini E Ramlakhan

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Democritus (460-370 bc): the world is just a bunch of particles and atoms swirling in a void. The mind can be reduced to the body, speci cally to the brain (the opposite of dualism) The only reality that exists is a material reality. Mental states and consciousness must be a part of the material reality since there is only substance that exists. The rst form of materialism that was developed in response to the issues surrounding. Behaviourists say they can"t study something that"s not measurable (ex. my experiences vs. yours) Widely seen as the most extreme form of materialism. There is nothing in the world that corresponds to mental states. If something can be eliminated that takes away from a mind-independent reality, then it should be. Neuroscience will eliminate all talk of mental categories. When we talk about the mind and mental states, they are just a gure of speech.