What do we mean by ‘mind’?

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What are the different types of mental experiences?

P - Perceptions

E - Emotions

S - Sensations

T - Thoughts

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What are the different types of mental states?

  1. Mental state → Physical

  • Wanting fish for lunch → eating fish for lunch

  1. Physical → Mental state

  • Stubbing your toe → feeling hurt

  1. Mental state → Mental state

  • One thought leads to another, thinking about your holiday leads to think about needing to pack

  1. Mental states are phenomenal

  • You can only grasp a phenomenal quality by experiencing it yourself, eating an exotic food

  1. Mental states are intentional

  • Mental state is about something, outside of our mind, Paris is the capital of France

  1. Mental states correlate with brain states

  • Mental state of thinking about tennis correlates with activation in the brain’s motor areas


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What is dualism?

There are two types of thing:

  1. Mental (the mind)

  2. Physical (the body)

The mental cannot be reduced to the physical


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What is Physicalism?

Substance monist (only one type of thing)

The mental can be reduced to or explained by the physical

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Intentionality definition

Some or all mental states are…

a) about something beyond itself: an intentional object

b) have aspectual shape: representing a particular point of view

c) are adopted with a propositional attitude to the object (e.g belief / hope / desire)