PHL 187 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mental Property, Type Physicalism

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Mithunaa visvalingam: briefly outline the main structure of descartes"s dualism. Descartes found a solution to the mind/body problem. He calls it the cartesian dualism, which states that there are two kinds of things in the world. There are physical objects on one hand, and there are mental objects (mind, pain, beliefs, etc. ). The difference between dualism and materialism is that dualism is the belief of whether we view matter and mind as two separate ideas. However, materialism is that our mind is consumed on a valued object/matter: briefly outline the main structure of the mind-brain identity theory. An alternative to dualism is the mind-brain identity theory. The theory makes a claim about objects and also about the properties those objects possess. It states that one"s mind and brain are the same object. The idea is that if m and b are identical, then they must have all the same properties.

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