Quiz 4

Question 1

What is physical information? What does it imply?

Answer 1

It’s a rubric that tells us about BPF aspects of cognition

Means all positions on mind/body = physicalism

Question 2

Qualia

Answer 2

The feeling of what it is like to be in a given mental state

Question 3

Qualia freak

Answer 3

believes that BPF is insufficient as an account of the mind

Question 4

What does BPF stand for?

Answer 4

Behavioral, physcilogical, functional aspects of cognition

Question 5

What is the preliminary arguemnt against physicalism given qualia and qualia freak (3)

Answer 5

physicalism information is inadequate to account for qualia.
if physicalism is true, it would be adequate
physicalism is false

Question 6

Subjective phenomena

Answer 6

phenomena that are evident from only a particular POV accessible to a specfic observer

Question 7

Objective phenomena

Answer 7

phenomena evident from a general POV accessible to all observers

Question 8

What is ‘translation form’ of reduction

Answer 8

commits to a relation of strict identity between sensations and brain states, but that it doesn’t produce the errors the critique supposes it does

Question 9

What is ‘disappearance form’ of reduction

Answer 9

denies there is a strict identify between sensations and brains states, but also denies that there is only a correlation between the two

Question 10

strong eliminiativism

Answer 10

there are no mental states because the term fails to refer to anything that exists

Question 11

reductive materialism

Answer 11

there are mental states strictly identical to physical states

Question 12

theory laden

Answer 12

mental states/sensations are entities postulated in an explanatory in an explanatory theory

Question 13

strictly intuitive

Answer 13

mental states are entities immediately evident to us in experience