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Revision - A2
| A drunkard scans the pavement
under a street lamp for his lost key; he knows it can't be there,
but at least the light is. This ... is the position of most
contemporary philosophers trying to solve the murky problem of
consciousness. They focus on the brain, since that, at any rate,
can be scientifically observed, and end up denying the reality of
subjective experience, which is precisely what they were seeking
to explain. From a
Guardian book review |
Paper 4 -
Philosophy of mind
Revising
Philosophy of mind
What is the mind
Distinguishing the mental and the physical
Revising consciousness
Revising property dualism
Arguments
against dualism
Assess dualism
Eliminative materialism
Consciousness and
materialism
Consciousness - article
Mind Brain Identity Theory
Arguments against
materialism
Assess materialism
Are mental states
brain states
Intentionality
Functionalism
Assess Functionalism
Biological Naturalism
Revising biological
naturalism
Logical behaviourism
Identity through time
Assess
the view that only humans can be persons
The argument from analogy
Can we argue
other minds from our own case?
Wittgenstein's private language argument
Other minds and the
private language argument
Strawson's
criteriological approach
Can we know our own
minds? - Ted Talk
Philosophy on line -
good basis summaries
Paper 5 - Hume
The
Enquiry Squashed
Hume classroom revision notes
Section II -
Of the origin of ideas
Section III -
Of the association
of ideas
Section IV -
Sceptical doubts
Section V -
Solution to these
doubts
Section VI -
Of Probability
Section VII -
Of the idea of
necessary connection
Section VIII -
Of
liberty and necessity
Hume's account of the
mind - essay
Hume
on causation
Key criticisms
Free Will
Hume's
Enquiry - general account
Section C responses
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