Exam 3 PHIL (NIU)

Matching Options for 3rd Exam (20%)

Analytic Functionalism

• Characterizes mental states by typical causes and effects revealed by folk psychology.

Behaviorism

• Defines mental states and processes as dispositions to act in certain ways across various circumstances.

Compatibilism

• Proposes that humans can possess free will even under a deterministic universe.

Determinism

• States that the laws of physics and the current state of the universe determine all future states.

Eliminativism

• Asserts that since commonsense folk psychology is inaccurate, the mental states it describes do not exist.

Hard Determinism

• Argues that because determinism is true, free will is an illusion and does not exist.

Libertarianism

• Claims that because determinism is false, individuals do possess free will.

Mind-Brain Identity Theory

• Suggests that mental states and processes are identical to brain states and processes.

Panpsychism

• Proposes that all matter possesses a form of primitive consciousness or mindedness, in addition to physical properties.

Psycho-functionalism

• Characterizes mental states through typical causes and effects as identified by scientific psychology.

Radical Libertarianism

• Claims that freely willed decisions are not bound by physical laws, with decisions made by a transcendent soul.

Scientific Libertarianism

• Argues that free will exists because some brain processes involved in decision-making are not deterministic.

Soft Determinism

• Suggests that people can have free will even though determinism is true.

Substance Dualism

• States that while brains and bodies are physical, minds are nonphysical or immaterial souls.

Verificationism

• Claims that meaningful declarative sentences must always be verifiable or falsifiable, either through their own wording or through observational evidence.