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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'The Problem of the Soul' and 'Troubles with Functionalism'
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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People largely came to believe in dualism because it made human agents free [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour
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Behaviour requires knowledge as well as dispositions [Block]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Behaviourism notoriously has nothing to say about mental causation [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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In functionalism, desires are internal states with causal relations [Block]
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Functionalism is behaviourism, but with mental states as intermediaries [Block]
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You might invert colours, but you can't invert beliefs [Block]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 8. Functionalism critique
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Could a creature without a brain be in the right functional state for pain? [Block]
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Not just any old functional network will have mental states [Block]
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In functionalism, what are the special inputs and outputs of conscious creatures? [Block]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism
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Cars and bodies obey principles of causation, without us knowing any 'strict laws' about them [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
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Physicalism doesn't deny that the essence of an experience is more than its neural realiser [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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Physicalism is prejudiced in favour of our neurology, when other systems might have minds [Block]
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