PHIL 3035 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Philosophical Zombie, Group C Nerve Fiber, Hillary Clinton

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 3035
• Professor: Kristin Andrews

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Argument against substance dualism: objection 1 to dualism (interaction problem) If dualism is true, then non-physical minds have causal power over physical bodies, and bodies have causal power over minds. Thesis: even weak versions of behaviorism are hopelessly flawed. Materialism he has something like identity theory in mind. It is not uncommon to use the term this way, but it is also common to use the term so that behaviorism is counted as a form of materialism. There is no widely agreed-upon terminology here: analogy between polio and pain. If pain is necessarily identical to pain behavior, then super-spartans are logically impossible: super-spartans are not logically impossible, therefore, pain is not necessarily identical to pain behavior. It is an empirical question whether pain is contingently identical to the behavior associated with it, and just a little bit of investigation (e. g. , via introspection) shows that pain is not the same as the behavior associated with it.