PHIL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, René Descartes, Materialism
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Mind: psychological states, emotions, beliefs, morals, personality, memories, imagination, thoughts. Body: functions such as respiration, digestion, etc. There are two aspects to our existence. The mind and the body are two separate components. Believes that the mind is not part of the body. After we die, our consciousness lives on. Descartes dualism = substance dualism = we are comprised of 2 kinds of stuff . Mental thoughts / states are states of the body. Each physical event is caused by a previous one (thought = raising hand) Idealism: (typically not involved in the mind-body debate) All so-called physical objects are really just collections of ideas. The indubitability argument: my body is dubitable, my mind is indubitable, therefore, my mind my body. If x = y, then x and y have all the same features. If x and y differ in any of their features, then x y.
