PHIL 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empirical Psychology
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Study of philosophical questions concerning the mind and its properties" - incorrect. This assumes minds" are objects, of a certain kind, related to other objects (ex. brain, body) Rather, people are minded or mindful", instead of people have minds". No term that embraces all minded things, actual and possible (machines, non-human animals, Philosophical studies pay close attention to concepts deployed in characterising things as. Subjects of experience" and the analysis of them. Experts in philosophical thinking are separate to other positions, it often require time others have not had. Don"t leave philosophising about subject matter to given science"s own practitioners - limited. Metaphysics ( believed root of all philosophy) Skeptics claim it is an illusion to suppose human beings can formulate and justify an.
