PHIL 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dualism (Philosophy Of Mind)
4 Apr 2016
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Mind and body are two separate substances that work independently. Body is a physical object, an epistemic-ly public (knowable by. The mind is immaterial more than one person) Minds are private (only i have direct, privileged access to its content) Sensations, thoughts can only be interpreted independently you know you"re angry through your feelings, while someone else interprets it through physical cues. Many philosophers attribute the cartesian perception of the mind. There is a faculty in the inner world of your mind, of the physical encounters/matter of the body (external senses, a theory of interspection) The cartesian picture of the mind asserts certainty of the mind. Interspection is infallible to descartes (i can"t be wrong of my emotions) Descartes acknowledges that it is only infallible of the conscious mind. Go to the circle in front of gzowski and the bus runs over you foot. You scream and someone asks what is wrong, and you respond you are in pain.
