PSYCH 9A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lightner Witmer, American Psychological Association, David Chalmers
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Interdisciplinary: psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science that can be verified and agreed on by others: philosophical theories, broadly divided into monist (one kind of stuff in the world) Physical world is fundamental: epiphenomenalism: mind is produced by physical events, but has no causal role (cannot affect the physical) Ou(cid:374)d of a lo(cid:272)o(cid:373)oti(cid:448)e (cid:449)histle (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e its (cid:373)a(cid:272)hi(cid:374)e(cid:396)(cid:455) La mettrie (1709-1751): man a machine: neutral monism: tries to avoid the two extreme views. World is made up of one kind of stuff, but that stuff (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:272)lassified as eithe(cid:396) (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal of physical: dualism: mind & brain are two different stuff. Wanted to base his philosophy on a firm foundation (what am i absolutely sure of?) For the theory to work, the mind and physical must interact (in both directions) Descarte: interaction happens in the pineal gland. P(cid:396)oposi(cid:374)g a site does(cid:374)"t sol(cid:448)e the (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) of ho(cid:449) this i(cid:374)te(cid:396)a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) happe(cid:374)s.
