PHILOS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Logical Consequence, Philosophical Zombie, Explanandum And Explanans
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4/10 mon: cartesian dualism, mind and body are distinct substances (bear of properties/ qualities) Question begging: the essences of mind and body are not necessary valid. 4/14 fir: causal closure, every physical affect has a physical cause, however, there may be uncaused events. Parsimony: explanatory virtue, the simplest explanation is preferred. Problem of another mind: you can only identify other bodies but not other immaterial minds. 5: you cannot prove the existence of others. Behaviorism: there is no such an entity of a mind, all minds are behaviors, there are no private states for minds. Motivation: scientific study of mind, problem of other minds, linguistic considerations. View: materialist view of mind, view about nature of mind + mental terms, reductive view: if x reduces to y, then x is nothing over and above y. (water reduces to. H2o, then all water is h2o): mental states= behavior or dispositions to behave, mind is not a thing(substance)
