A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mental Substance, Empirical Psychology, Philosophical Explanations
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Mind/body problem: monism (mind and body same thing, dualism (mind and body are two different things) Property dualism (mind and body are different things but are the same matter) Parallelism (the two systems are parallel to each other no real interaction) Epiphenomenalism (physical events are causal to mental events: mechanization of the world. Mechanism in the 17th century, image of the universe as a machine. All natural processes are mechanically determined and capable of being explained by the laws of physics and chemistry: observation and experimentation distinguishing features of science, mechanical clock --> ideal metaphor for 17th century spirit of mechanism. Determinism --> belief that every act is determined or caused by past events: can predict the changes that will occur in the operation of the clock . Reductionism --> working of machines could be understood by reducing them to their basic components: understanding the universe by analyzing or reducing it to its simplest parts.
