Philosophy of Mind Exam 2 Questions with Complete Solutions

Neuron Docterine and who contributed to it - ANSWER-Concept that the nervous system is made up of a discrete individual cells -Golgi and Cajal 4 regions of the brain and their functions - ANSWER-Cerebrum -Conscious functioning Cerebellum -Smooth movements Diencephalon -Hormones and some automatic functioning Brain stem -Controls vital functioning Why do materialist reject all forms of dualism - ANSWER--Because if they accept any parts of dualism they would have to explain how a non physical entity such as a spirit could interact with a physical entity such as a body What is eliminative materialism? - ANSWER-- type of materialism - Paul Churchland defends - The world consists of only material (or physical) substances; folk-psychologists mental concepts are to be eliminated in favor of more exact, material concepts o Many hypotheses should be eliminated. o Don't be surprised if the correct conclusion doesn't include "folk-psychological mental concepts" Rorty's version of Eliminative materialism - ANSWER--Demon Analogy argument (Mental concepts like pains and beliefs are like demons and witches, demons and witches are non existing non natural features that can't be reduced to existing natural features, best way to deal with these kinds of features is to eliminate them) -Incorrigibility Argument (Mental states are incorrigible, cannot be known better than by the person whose state it is, but because of modern science no physical state is incorrigible, since humans are physical states, no human state is incorrigible, so no human state is mental -Privacy argument (the mind is private, but with future science the brain may be uncovered making it public, so if the brain can be public and the mind is private, then the mental states don't exist) Chuchland folk psychology support of eliminative materialism - ANSWER-Traditional mental concepts and principles are based on folk psychology, folk sciences are bad sciences that need to be revised or eliminated, revising would cause its entire nature to