PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Folk Psychology, Mental Property, Eliminative Materialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sonia Sikka

Document Summary

Churchland) argue that mind can actually be reduced into matter, and that only material properties are genuinely real. If i can clearly and distinctly perceive something, then god makes something that exists to correspond to my clear and distinct perception; otherwise god would be a deceiver. If i can clearly and distinctly perceive x and y as complete things whose principle attributes exclude each other, then god can make x and y apart from each other. If x and y can exist apart from each other (whether or not they really are/do) then they are distinct. I can clearly and distinctly perceive mind as a complete thing to which extension does not pertain. The argument for dualism rests on the claim that the essence of mind is thought , while the essence of body is extension this duality of essences implies a duality of corresponding substance.