Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Stathis Psillos and Rita Carter
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these philosophers
display all the ideas for this combination of philosophers
9 ideas
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 7. Animal Minds
4908
|
No one knows if animals are conscious [Carter,R]
|
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain
4915
|
In primates, brain size correlates closely with size of social group [Carter,R]
|
4902
|
Pain doesn't have one brain location, but is linked to attention and emotion [Carter,R]
|
4904
|
Proper brains appear at seven weeks, and neonates have as many neurons as adults do [Carter,R]
|
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / c. Parts of consciousness
4917
|
Consciousness involves awareness, perception, self-awareness, attention and reflection [Carter,R]
|
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness
4916
|
There is enormous evidence that consciousness arises in the frontal lobes of the brain [Carter,R]
|
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia
4905
|
Normal babies seem to have overlapping sense experiences [Carter,R]
|
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 7. Blindsight
4918
|
In blindsight V1 (normal vision) is inactive, but V5 (movement) lights up [Carter,R]
|
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation
4769
|
It is hard to analyse causation, if it is presupposed in our theory of the functioning of the mind [Psillos]
|