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Lecture 4 – The Problems of Mind ( Think , pp.49-65)

Lecture 4 – The Problems of Mind ( Think , pp.49-65). Thinking about the mental The mind-body problem The problem of intentionality The problem of consciousness Persons and Personal Identity (Next week). Thinking About the Mental. Three General Questions: 1/ What are minds?

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Lecture 4 – The Problems of Mind ( Think , pp.49-65)

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  1. Lecture 4 – The Problems of Mind(Think, pp.49-65) Thinking about the mental The mind-body problem The problem of intentionality The problem of consciousness Persons and Personal Identity (Next week)

  2. Thinking About the Mental Three General Questions: 1/ What are minds? How are mind and body related? What are persons? What does it mean to be the same person over time? Could machines have minds? Inentionality Consciousness

  3. 2/ How do we gain knowledge about minds? Our own minds? First-Person Authority and Privileged Access Other Minds? Argument from Analogy Non-Humans

  4. 3/ What are the “contents” of our minds? Cognitive states (Have a “direction-of-fit”) -Beliefs -Suppositions -Knowledge Affective states (Have a feeling associated with them) -emotions -perceptions -feelings -moods

  5. The Mind-Body Problem Substance Dualism -mind and body distinct substances -causal interaction? -interactionism (Descartes) -occasionalism (Malebfranche) -pre-established harmony (Leibniz)

  6. Property Dualism (Donald Davidson – “Anomalous Monism”) -mental properties distinct from physical properties -mental properties not reducible to physical properties -not committed to existence of two distinct kinds of substance

  7. Materialism and the Mind Identity Theories (Type vs. Token) Eliminative Materialism Behaviourism Functionalism

  8. Intentionality What makes our mental images/ beliefs about things in the world??? -causal connections? -resemblance/similarity??

  9. The Problems of Consciousness The phenomenological aspect of the mental was ignored for some time -can there be a scientific account of consciousness? -can there be a materialistic theory of consciousness

  10. Some Problems Raised by Consciousness Ownership Mechanism “Zombies” Inverted Spectrum Location of pains

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