PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Mental Property, Philosophy Of Mind, Folk Psychology
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Reductive physicalism holds that the mind supervenes on the physical and there is nothing "genuinely" mental about the way in which the mind supervenes on the physical. That is, any mental properties are exhaustively explicable by the underlying physical conditions (ex. So, what are mental properties and how do we explain them. Logical behaviorism holds that there are no internal states and "norms" that physically determine the relation between states concerning human psychology. That is, any mental properties are merely stimulus-behavior patterns and such patterns are explicable by reinforcement rules. Objection: there seems to be psychological "norms" that explain human psychology, we are rational agents not some primitive organisms like bacteria. Eliminativism holds that folk psychology is a sort of pseudo-science and any folk psychological terms will be replaced by neuroscientific terms. Desires, beliefs) are meaningless in that statements like "i feel pain" refer to nothing-they are analogous to statements like "the person is possessed by a demon"
