General Questions

Question 1

Substance is the _____ of properties.

Answer 1

bearer

Question 2

The mind-body problem is the problem of ____ and _____ the ______ between our mental states and our physical states

Answer 2

describing, explaining, relationship

Question 3

What is the hard problem of conciousness?

Answer 3

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of analysing and explaining the phenomenal properties of consciousness, what it is like to undergo consciousness

Question 4

Phenomenal consciousness is a form of consciousness with a ______ , ______ quality?

Answer 4

subjective, experiental

Question 5

Intentionality is a ______ of mental states, whereby they are _____ towards an _____

Answer 5

property, directed, intentional object

Question 6

How do intentional mental states represent the world?

Answer 6

Intentional mental states represent the world in partial and particular ways

Question 7

What is the aspectual shape?

Answer 7

The way an intentional object is represented

Question 8

Do all philosophers believe that phenomenal qualities should be understood as qualia?

Answer 8

No

Question 9

Qualia are _____ , _____ , _____ properties of mind

Answer 9

intrinsic, non-intentional, introspectively accessible

Question 10

Mental properties are what kind of property according to Cartesian Dualism?

Answer 10

Mental Substance

Question 11

What is the essential property of mind?

Answer 11

Thought

Question 12

What is the essential property of body?

Answer 12

Extension

Question 13

Does Descartes think that minds can exist without body?

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

How do intentional mental states represent the world?

Answer 14

Partial and particular ways

Question 15

If two things have the same properties, are they the same thing?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What kind of divisibility is Descartes concerned with?

Answer 16

Spatial

Question 17

Qualia are ______ , ______ , _____ properties of mental states?

Answer 17

intrinsic, non-intentional, introspectively accessible

Question 18

What does Descartes mean when he says that the mind is essentially unified?

Answer 18

It cannot be divided

Question 19

What is essential property of the mind?

Answer 19

Thought

Question 20

What inference does the masked man fallacy challenge?

Answer 20

Extension

Question 21

What does it mean to say a proposition is conceivable?

Answer 21

The proposition is logically possible, but doesn’t contain any logical self-contradictions given your concepts

Question 22

What does Descartes’ conceivability argument rely on?

Answer 22

Clear and distinct

Question 23

Descartes says that the mind is essentially ______

Answer 23

Unified

Question 24

In order to infer what is the case in reality, Descartes would need to show that it is _______ ________ for the mind to be dependent on the body

Answer 24

metaphysically impossible

Question 26

What does ontologically independent mean?

Answer 26

An entity does not depend on another entity to exist

Question 27

What is substance dualism?

Answer 27

The view that the mind and body are separate and distinct substances

Question 28

Intentional content= intentional object + ________

Answer 28

aspectual shape

Question 29

What kind of consciousness is the hard problem of consciousness concerned with?

Answer 29

Phenomenal consciousness

Question 30

The _____ ____ fallacy challenges the inference from _____ to _____

Answer 30

masked man, inconceivability, metaphysical possibility

Question 31

Conceivability= ______ possibility

Answer 31

logical

Question 32

What is the essential property of the mind

Answer 32

Thought

Question 32

Does Avramides think that Descartes has responded to the problem of other minds?

Answer 32

No