1
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substance
A
- an entity; a thing; stuff
- something that can exist independently of other things
2
Q
property
A
- substances possess properties
- properties cannot without substances
- a substance will continue to exist through changes in properties
3
Q
intentionality
A
- intentional states are about something else
- eg my belief that ‘Paris is the capital of France’ is about the city of Paris
4
Q
qualia
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- the ‘what is like’ of the mental
- eg what it is like to see red or smell coffee
5
Q
two descriptions of the world
A
- mental: subjective, private, intentionality (about other things), qualia (something that it is like to have)
- physical: objective, public, measurable, studied by science
6
Q
two main views
A
- dualism
- physicalism
7
Q
dualism
A
- the mental and physical are distinct
- this is the reason why we have very different descriptions of the two
- the difficulty is to explain the relationship between the two
8
Q
physicalism
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- only the physical exists
- the mental can be explained entirely in terms of physical things
- the difficulty is to figure out how that can be done
9
Q
substance dualism (dualism)
A
there are physical substances and mental substances
10
Q
property dualism
(dualism)
A
there are only physical substances but they can have physical and mental properties
11
Q
reduction
A
mental descriptions could (at least in theory) be replaced with physical descriptions
12
Q
eliminativism
A
our ‘folk-psychology’ is in error, we must look to science to explain things
13
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functionalism
A
the mental is the processes of the brain
