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Paper 2 · Section B · ψυχή

Metaphysics of Mind

Whether the mind is something over and above the body, and how physicalist theories try to explain it.

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I

Dualist theories

Substance dualism (indivisibility, conceivability), property dualism (zombies, knowledge argument) and their problems.

0/27 attempted
II

Philosophical behaviourism

Hempel's hard and Ryle's soft behaviourism, the category mistake, and the objections.

0/12 attempted
III

Mind–brain type identity

Place and Smart's identity theory and the multiple realisability objection.

0/13 attempted
IV

Functionalism

Mental states as functional roles; the inverted qualia, China brain and knowledge argument objections.

0/13 attempted
V

Eliminative materialism

The Churchlands on folk psychology, and whether eliminativism is self-refuting.

0/12 attempted

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