Video discussion of Chapter 2: Substance Dualism. Video by alfsvoid, called "Can Reason Prove We Have a Soul?"
A companion blog for the book This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, 2nd Edition by Pete Mandik, from Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
Showing posts with label Dualism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dualism. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2022
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Frank Jackson - The Knowledge Argument - Mary's Room - Mary the Super-Sc...
Short video illustrating Frank Jackson's knowledge argument against physicalism and his related thought experiment of Mary, the colorblind super scientist. Philosopher Galen Strawson explains.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Dorian Electra & The Electrodes - What Mary Didn't Know (Official Video)
Rock video about Frank Jackson's "Mary" thought experiment:
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Non-materialist neuroscience - RationalWiki
Non-materialist neuroscience - RationalWiki
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Non-materialist neuroscience is one of the latest fronts in the war on science. The battle has been a long time coming and it is surprising it has taken so long to get going. Modern neuroscience is rapidly reducing much of human thought, emotion and behavior into component pieces of neuronal interactions. The combination of computational modeling and non-invasive imaging of living brains has allowed researchers to begin describing how complex thought emerges from the firing patterns of neurons. In a way, neuroscience is the death knell of dualism. When materialist causes become both necessary and sufficient to explain all of human thought then parsimony dictates that references to a soul or other supernatural entities can be tossed out.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
QualiaSoup videos on Substance Dualism
Youtuber QualiaSoup is a "UK artist and secular humanist discussing critical thinking, science, atheism, philosophy, religion & the natural world." Check out QualiaSoup's two-parter (pun?) on substance dualism.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Correspondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth
The correspondence between René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, edited by Jonathan Bennett. One of the main things that Elisabeth famously gives Descartes a hard time about is the problem of mental causation.
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/descelis.pdf
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/descelis.pdf
Monday, October 3, 2011
Philosophy Bro on Zombies, Minds, and Possibility
Philosophy Bro: Mailbag Monday: Zombies, Minds, and Possibility
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So Kripke's Modal Argument and Chalmers' Zombie Argument both rely on the notion of possible worlds that we touched on last week, and they're both arguments against physicalism, the idea that everything can be described in terms of physical properties - if it's not physical, fuck it. It's not real. That's an interesting thesis for philosophers of mind, because it sure seems like consciousness isn't just physical. Descartes famously imagined himself as nothing but a mind - if everything physical ceased to exist, he said he could definitely keep thinking.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Free online sources of Descartes's Meditations
Philosophy and the Matrix: Descartes
This clip discussing the philosophical connections between Descartes and the Matrix movies features philosophers of mind such as Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, Hubert Dreyfus, and Mark Rowlands.
Three minute philosophy: Rene Descartes
The basic ideas of Descartes, with lots of swearing.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Interview with David Chalmers on consciousness
Here's a video of an interview with the philosopher of mind David Chalmers on consciousness and why it poses such a hard problem for philosophy and science:
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