Exam 4: Mind and Body

__________ offered the solution that there was no mind-body interaction and that monads were not physical. God programmed us so that our mental activities and our so-called bodily activities were exactly coordinated. This is called parallelism.

Philosophers of the mind and neuroscientists now understand the function of sleep.

According to Galen Strawson, consciousness consists of two elements, __________.

__________ proposed to defend materialism without claiming an identity between what we call "mental states" and the workings of the brain.

The connectionist claims that the mechanical and physical interactions that occur in the brain determine the types of behavior that computers are capable of processing.

Thomas Nagel argued that it was consciousness that made the mind-body problem so "intractable."

Strong behaviorists believe that there are no mental events.

Husserl described consciousness as a kind of container in which one finds ideas, thoughts, feelings, desires, and so forth.

For __________, mental events and physical events were different aspects of the same "something," in his case, the same substance.

Intentionality may be defined as __________.

__________ warns us not to slide form distinguishing between mind and body to formulating dubious views about the inferiority of some groups of people relative to others.

Freud's concept of the unconscious considers all thoughts that we are aware of at the moment and know everything about.

The __________ are materialists but they are not reductionists; they believe that consciousness is a result of the complicated connections that go on in the brain.

__________ claimed that our experiences and ideas were one aspect of some events or activities of which the various chemical reactions of the brain were another aspect. This theory has often been called the dual aspect theory.

David Chalmers has made use of the notion of __________ to challenge physicalist views of the mind.

The key to Ryle's analysis is __________.

__________ argued that because the two languages that we could use to describe mental-neurological events were so different, the thing(s) that they referred to must be different as well.

Descartes said there were two types of substances: mind or mental substance and body or physical substance.

Elizabeth V. Spelman uses __________ hierarchical account of the relationship between mind and body to illustrate how the problem of mind and body can impact other philosophical views.

The argument for functionalism is ultimately concerned with the relations between elements of the brain; mental acts occur as a "function" of elements. Logical behaviorism claims that the mind is only the "pattern" of our behavior. What is different between these two accounts? What is similar about these accounts? In what ways are they using the same ideas to provide different accounts of the mind?