PHILOS 122 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Type Physicalism, Anomalous Monism, Mental Substance
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Metaphysic is a philosophy branch concerned with the study of the reality; it asks questions about the nature of world[1]. As a sub-field of metaphysic, ontology explores the nature of being and its fundamental categories[2]. The ontology of mind is also called the. Philosophy of mind, which studies the nature of mind [3]. The central concept of the philosophy of mind is the mind- body problem, which is about the relationship between mind and body, such as how they interact [4]. There are three metaphysical views that one may take with respect to the mind-body problem: dualism, materialism and idealism. Dualism asserts that there are two kinds of thing exist in the word: immaterial minds and physical matters. Materialism and idealism, on the other hands, are monistic views that only accept the existence of one of them. Materialists only accept the existence of physical things; they believe all that exist is matter, and mind is purely a matter.
