PHILOS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Abstraction, Mark Twain, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Shoket"s view renders nonsense the thought that people do things for reasons and the practice of justification. Mere causes v. reasons (actions based on reasons are evaluable as good or bad, justified or unjustified) Some explanatory questions (about action and belief) can only be answered with reasons. The fact that shoket is justifying his view contradicts it. They both believe in materialism (human activity takes place in the brain) Plato at the googleplex is sympathetic to science. Plato says on the one hand all that there is to the mind it"s neurons and synapses firing but also we have to give explanations based on reasons , values and beliefs and decisions etc. Shoket says you should leave out reasons and just explain scientific processes. Possibly we give reasons to make people feel better (case of break up) Shoket object that plato/agatha"s views lead to too many competing explanations.
