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PoFW- Theory of Mind
Question | Answer |
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dualism | Dualism is the doctrine that there are two different types of substance: physical substance, which is the object of the natural sciences, and mental substance, which is the stuff of which our conscious states are comprised. |
materialism | Materialism is the position that there is only physical substance. For the materialist, mental states like pains, beliefs, desires, etc. are fundamentally physical states. (aka: physicalism, animalism) |
idealism | Idealism, like materialism, holds that there is only one substance, but claims that the substance is mental. |
functionalism | -the mind is not s/t that exists apart from the physical (against dualism) -denies that mental states are identical to physical states (against materialism) -the way in which the physical substance is organized is important -mental states=functional ru |
eliminitivism | Reductionist and physicalist theory of mind recommending the disuse of psychological terms, like "belief" and "doubt", that lack physical referents. |
interactionism | the form of dualism that accepts both the theses of physical-to-mental causality and mental-to-physical causality |
incompatibilism | if all physical events are causally determined by the conjunction of a fixed past and the laws of nature, then human beings lack free will |
determinism | all physical events are causally determined by the conjunction of a fixed past and the laws of nature (aka causal determinism) |
compatibilism | it is false that, if all physical events are casually determined by the conjunction of a fixed past and the laws of nature, then human beings do not have free will |
libertarianism | determinism is false and humans have free will |
hard determinism | determinism is true and humans do not have free will |