PHIL 2240 Chapter Notes -Homunculus Argument, Visual Cortex, Physicalism
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The theories examined so far have been avowedly materialist or materialist in inspiration in failing to take consciousness seriously. Their by leaving no room for it, or denying its existence. Identity theory, in both type-type and token-token versions; eliminativism; analytical behaviourism; functionalism. 1) how incorporeal souls are individuated and identified over time. 2) how souls are supposed to have a casual commerce with the both. Only physical substances and physical events, possessing two different kinds of properties. Mental dependent on physical known as supervenience relation. Donald davidson denied reduction of mental to physical was possible. Embraced a version of token-token identity theory. Events thought to be of as concrete, non-repeatable particulars, on par with logical substances. No purely mental events, only physical ones. They have not only physical properties but irreducibly mental properties. To prevent the issue reducing mental properties to physical properties or identifying with them propped mental properties supervene on physical properties.
