Philosophical Theories of Consciousness - Part III
Cartesian Dualism
> A stunning modal argument
> Mysterious interaction
> A powerful brain
> Hints of a represenational theory
Spinoza's Many Aspects Theory
> Substance and attribute
> Mental / Physical parallelism
> A form of panpsychism
Leibniz's Multi-Minds
> Windowless monads
> Respect for matter
> Aggregates and Unities
> Zero Emergence
The Idealist Turn and Turnabout
> Berkeley's world of illusion
> Kant's noumenal constructivism
> Throwing sand against the wind
> The death of idealism ... and the
> Triumph of scientific metaphysics
Ancient Emergentism
> Empedocles
> The four elements
> Was Empedocles a true emergentist?
> Democritus
> Atomism
> Part-Whole Reductionism
> Was Democritus a true emergentist?
The Mechanist-Materialist Tradition
> From Hobbes to Elliotson
> The French Connection
> LaMettrie
> Cabanis
> A Persistent Confusion
> Locke and "thinking matter"
> The secretion metaphor
> Pure materialism vs "property dualism"
> Problem of emergence remains
Radical Emergence
> Mill's homopathic vs heteropathic effects
> Morgan's "emergent evolution"
> Broad's mathematical archangel
> Quantum chemistry and the fall of emergentism
Modern Physicalisms: Identity Theory
> The analytic sticking point
> Moore's naturalistic fallacy
> Quine's attack
> contingent identities ?
> Kripke's refinement
> Identification and scientific reduction
> Ontology is not epistemology
Problems for the Identity Theory
> Misunderstands the relation between high
and low level theory
> Supervenience is not identity
> Chauvinism and multiple realizability
> What is the same across physical diversity ?
> Does identification explain, and if so, what ?
Functionalism - The Software Analogy
> Emergent computational systems
> The concept of "realization"
> The software analogy
> minds are to brains as software to hardware
> Turing Machine Functionalism
> Homuncular Functionalism
Troubles With Functionalism
> Bizarre Realization
> Absent qualia
> Consciousness neglect
> Meta-chauvinism
> How does functionalism explain consciousness ?
The Bogy of Reductionism
> Reductionism is bad
> Identity theory implies reductionism
> Functionalism implies reductionism (?)
> Some other form of physicalism is needed.
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