PHIL 1050 Lecture Notes - John Locke, Tabula Rasa, Auditory Phonetics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1050
• Professor: Paul Raymont

Document Summary

There are two basic things according to descartes: mind and body. They must always be distinct from each other. He arrives at this through his simple mind theory. As long as its extended in space, and exists you can, in theory put a line down the middle and cut it in two half"s. A materialistic view would be that you could potentially split the mind into streams. If you split the brain, you could split the mind. Descartes main argument for dualism shows up in the sixth meditation, this would be his conceivability argument. This goes back to the 2nd meditation when he was impressed by the fact that he doubted whether physical things existed, but he knew he existed. That leads him to question that he is different from other physical things. The conceivability argument doesn"t talk about studies of the mind, and results.