Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jacob Zabarella, Aristotle and William Lycan
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23 ideas
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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Emotion involves the body, thinking uses the mind, imagination hovers between them [Aristotle]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling [Aristotle]
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The soul (or parts of it) is not separable from the body [Aristotle]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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If soul is separate from body, why does it die when the body dies? [Aristotle]
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Thinkers place the soul within the body, but never explain how they are attached [Aristotle]
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Early thinkers concentrate on the soul but ignore the body, as if it didn't matter what body received the soul [Aristotle]
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If energy in the brain disappears into thin air, this breaches physical conservation laws [Lycan]
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In lower animals, psychology is continuous with chemistry, and humans are continuous with animals [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Two behaviourists meet. The first says,"You're fine; how am I?" [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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Does the mind think or pity, or does the whole man do these things? [Aristotle]
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Aristotle has a problem fitting his separate reason into the soul, which is said to be the form of the body [Ackrill on Aristotle]
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If functionalism focuses on folk psychology, it ignores lower levels of function [Lycan]
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Functionalism must not be too abstract to allow inverted spectrum, or so structural that it becomes chauvinistic [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism
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Functionalism has three linked levels: physical, functional, and mental [Lycan]
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The distinction between software and hardware is not clear in computing [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism
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Mental types are a subclass of teleological types at a high level of functional abstraction [Lycan]
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Teleological characterisations shade off smoothly into brutely physical ones [Lycan]
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A mental state is a functional realisation of a brain state when it serves the purpose of the organism [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
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The soul and the body are inseparable, like the imprint in some wax [Aristotle]
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Identity theory is functionalism, but located at the lowest level of abstraction [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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We reduce the mind through homuncular groups, described abstractly by purpose [Lycan]
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Teleological functionalism helps us to understand psycho-biological laws [Lycan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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A Martian may exhibit human-like behaviour while having very different sensations [Lycan]
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