Exam 3 PHIL (NIU)

Analytic Functionalism

Mental states can be characterized by the typical causes and effects that
folk psychology reveals them to have.

Behaviorism

Mental states and processes are dispositions to act in a certain ways in a variety of circumstances.

Compatibilism

It is possible that people have free will even if determinism is true.

Determinism

the laws of physics and state of the universe at any one time fixes the state of the universe at all other times.

Eliminativism

Since commonsense folk psychology is false, the mental states it possesses does not exist.

Hard determinism

Because determinism is true, people do not have free will.

Libertarianism

Because determinism is false, people do have free will.

Mind-Brain identity

Mental states and process are states and processes of brains.

Panpsychism

In addition to physical/material properties, all matter has some kind of primitive consciousness or mindedness.

Psycho-Functionalism

Mental states can be characterized by the typical causes and effects scientific psychology reveals them to have.

Radical Libertarianism

Freely willed decisions are not determined by physical law but are made by a soul that transcends physical reality.

Scientific Libertarianism

People have free will because some of the brain process involved in human decision-making are not deterministic.

Soft determinism

People have free will even though determinism is ture.

Substance Dualism

While brains and bodies are physical or material things, minds are nonphysical or immaterial souls.

Verificationism

Meaningful declarative sentences are always verifiable or falsifiable, either solely by virtue of the words they contain, or by appeal to observational evidence.