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Single Idea 6152

[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / c. Features of mind ]

Full Idea

The apparent features of mind which are not obviously physical include: rationality, thought, consciousness, subjectivity, infallible first-person knowledge, freedom, meaning and self-awareness.

Gist of Idea

Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware

Source

Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.2)

Book Ref

Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.10

A Reaction

A helpful list, some of which can be challenged. Ryle challenges first-person infallibility. Hume challenges self-awareness. Quine challenges meaning. Lots of people (e.g. Spinoza) challenge freedom. The Churchlands seem to challenge consciousness.

The 16 ideas from Mark Rowlands

6177 Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people [Rowlands]
6178 It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity [Rowlands]
6156 The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space [Rowlands]
6158 Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars [Rowlands]
6157 Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds [Rowlands]
6155 Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties [Rowlands]
6154 It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack [Rowlands]
6152 Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware [Rowlands]
6159 Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world [Rowlands]
6161 Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding [Rowlands]
6163 If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected [Rowlands]
6168 The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence [Rowlands]
6167 Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states [Rowlands]
6170 Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79 [Rowlands]
6173 Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds [Rowlands]
6174 If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do [Rowlands]