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'Elements of Mind', 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' and 'The Evolution of Logic'
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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Descartes did not think of minds as made of a substance, because they are not divisible [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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Mind and brain don't interact if they are the same [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism
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Functionalism defines mental states by their causal properties, which rules out epiphenomenalism [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 7. Zombies
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Without internal content, a zombie's full behaviour couldn't be explained [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Mental states only relate to behaviour contingently, not necessarily [Searle]
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Wanting H2O only differs from wanting water in its mental component [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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Functionalists like the externalist causal theory of reference [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room
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A program for Chinese translation doesn't need to understand Chinese [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 8. Functionalism critique
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Computation presupposes consciousness [Searle]
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If we are computers, who is the user? [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 1. Reductionism critique
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The problems of misrepresentation and error have dogged physicalist reductions of intentionality [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism
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Property dualists tend to find the mind-body problem baffling [Searle]
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Property dualism denies reductionism [Searle]
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Properties dualism says mental properties are distinct from physical, despite a single underlying substance [Crane]
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Property dualism is the reappearance of Cartesianism [Searle]
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Consciousness is a brain property as liquidity is a water property [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism
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Non-reductive physicalism seeks an explanation of supervenience, but emergentists accept it as basic [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
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Mind and brain are supervenient in respect of cause and effect [Searle]
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If mind-brain supervenience isn't causal, this implies epiphenomenalism [Searle]
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Mental events can cause even though supervenient, like the solidity of a piston [Searle]
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If mental supervenes on the physical, then every physical cause will be accompanied by a mental one [Crane]
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Upwards mental causation makes 'supervenience' irrelevant [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism
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Consciousness seems indefinable by conditions or categories [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind
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Identity theory is either of particular events, or of properties, depending on your theory of causation [Crane]
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Physicalism may be the source of the mind-body problem, rather than its solution [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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Can the homunculus fallacy be beaten by recursive decomposition? [Searle]
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Searle argues that biology explains consciousness, but physics won't explain biology [Searle, by Kriegel/Williford]
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If mind is caused by brain, does this mean mind IS brain? [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 5. Causal Argument
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Overdetermination occurs if two events cause an effect, when each would have caused it alone [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique
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The completeness of physics must be an essential component of any physicalist view of mind [Crane]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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If mind is multiply realisable, it is possible that anything could realise it [Searle]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / c. Knowledge argument
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Experience teaches us propositions, because we can reason about our phenomenal experience [Crane]
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