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Forms (and an example)

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Plato’s theory of forms was that all things in the world of sense perception are particular instances of universal Forms.
Think about the example of a perfect table

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Psyche

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(Greek) soul, spirit, mind

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Thumos

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(Greek) in Plato’s understanding, that part of the psyche/ soul corresponding to pugnacity, righteous indignation, courage etc. It is subordinate to the rational part.

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Nous

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(Greek) intellect

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Radical

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Extreme, as in ‘radical dualism’: the view that the mind and matter are radically different: in particular, mind is not the same as the brain.

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Qualia

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The qualities of subjective conscious experience: e.g. what it feels like in your mind to experience redness, or the smell of a rose.

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Neuroscience

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The study of the brain and the nervous system

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Interactionism

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Descartes’ (false) view that mind and body interact within the pineal gland

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Fuctionalism

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It conceives of the mind as function. Mental states are identified by their functional role, for example, via human brains or through a non-biological system such as a computer.

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Multiple Realisability

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In functionalism, this is the argument that minds/ mental states can run on a variety of different platforms, like computers

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Dual-aspect Monism

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The view that the mind and matter are two aspects of one substance. Mind is first-person subjective experience (qualia), whereas brain events are third-person objective and neither is reducible to the other.

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Introspection

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To examine/ observe at one’s own conscious thought processes or feelings.

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Panpsychism

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The view that all entities are to some extent conscious; so consciousness is not unique to humans and other animals, but is possessed even but what we normally refer to as ‘inanimate objects’ such as rocks.

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Physicalism

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The monist view that there is only one substance - physical matter. for Physicalists, mind reduces to matter