Lecture 1 Flashcards
(16 cards)
What is psychology?
Scientific study of the human mind, it’s structure and it’s functions.
What is mind?
Umbrella term referring to all states of perception, sensations, emotions desire intentions etc.
What is the central aim of philosophy of mind?
- Define what the mind is
-Define who consider to be minded
-Internal structure of the mind
phenomenal quality
subjective experience or perception
Intentionality
how our thoughts can focus on things. It’s the way our minds can think about represent or be directed toward something.
For example: think about lion king. your mind is focused on lion king. It’s directed.
Substance Dualism
Your mind is completely distinct from your body.
-Rene Descartes important defender
Leibniz Law: The identitiy of Indicernibles
If x = y x and y have the same properties if not they dont.
Spatial location argument
Bodily states and processes have a spatial location mind doesn’t have one.
Rationality
Mental entities are rational body bodily materialistic entities are not.
Doubting argument (descartes)
Systematically questioning the existence of mental entities and Bodily states. Everything we see can be false (we might be living in a matrix) But I think therefore I am. So one thing we can’t doubt is the fact that we doubt which proves mental entities exist.
Intensional Fallacy
Unjustified leap from epistemology (study of what we know) to ontology (study of what really exists)
Interactionism
mind and body continuously interact
Parallelism
Body and mind don’t interact and God is the cause of harmony.
Occasionalism
Body and mind don’t interact. God mediates in between.
Idealism
everything that exists in mind
Materialism
Everything that exist is matter.
