1. Functionalism Eliminativism Prop Dualism MBIT Sub Dualism Behaviourism
What did Ryle mean by a ‘disposition’? [3 marks]
Briefly explain what Ryle means by a ‘category mistake’. [5 marks]
Briefly explain why the conceivability of a mental state without behaviour is a problem for logical behaviourism. [5 marks]
Outline the problem of circularity for Logical Behaviourism. [5 marks]
Outline some of the advantages of Logical Behaviourism [12 marks]
Assess the claim the mental states can be reduced to behaviour. [25 marks]
What is meant by describing a mental state as having a ’causal role’? [3 marks]
Briefly explain the inverted qualia argument against Functionalism. [5 marks]
Briefly explain the Chinese Mind argument against Functionalism. [5 marks]
Briefly explain one advantage Functionalism has over MiBIT [5]
Compare and contrast Functionalism with MBTIT. [12 marks]
Compare and contrast Functionalism with Substance Dualism. [12 marks]
Explain how functionalism is a reductive account of the mind. [12]
Outline the reasons why some philosophers reject a Functionalist account of pain. [12]
Assess the claim that mental states can be reduced to their functional roles. [25 marks]
What is meant by ‘folk psychology’? [3 marks]
Why do eliminativist materialists claim that folk psychology is an empirical theory? [3 marks]
Briefly explain why eliminativists prefer to eliminate mental descriptions rather than reduce them to physical descriptions. [5 marks]
Briefly explain why eliminativists are critical of ‘folk psychology’. [5 marks]
Outline some of the reasons why some philosophers object to the eliminativist position. [12 marks]
Outline some of the reasons Churchland gives for eliminating ‘folk psychology’ [12 marks]
Assess the claim that we should eliminate all talk of the mental and replace it with statements about the mind. [25 marks]
Briefly explain the difference between an ontological and an analytical reduction. [5 marks]
Outline one advantage of MBIT over other theories of mind [5 marks]
Briefly explain the location problem [5 marks]
What is meant by the term ‘multiple realisability?’ [5 marks]
Outline some of the advantages MBTIT has over other physicalist theories [12 marks]
Are brain states ontologically reducible to brain states? [25 marks]
Assess the claim that reductive accounts of the mind in the end always fail [25 marks]
What are qualia? [3 marks]
What does ‘irreducible’ mean? [3 marks]
What is meant by ‘interactionist property dualism’? [3 marks]
What is meant by ‘epiphenomenalism’ [3]
Briefly explain what it is for mental properties to be ‘emergent’ [5 marks]
Briefly explain what is meant by describing mental properties as ‘irreducible’ [5 marks]
Outline Frank Jackson’s ‘What Mary Never Knew’ thought experiment [12 marks]
Outline the ‘Philosophical Zombie’ argument for property dualism [12 marks]
Outline reasons why some philosophers do not accept Jackson’s Knowledge Argument [12 marks]
Outline reasons why some philosophers do not agree that philosophical zombies prove property dualism [12 marks]
Assess property dualism. [25]
Assess the claim that non- reductive accounts of the mind fail to explain mental causation. [25]
What is Leibniz’s Law? [3 marks]
Briefly explain Descartes’ conceivability argument [5]
Briefly explain Descartes’ indivisibility argument [5 marks]
What are the similarities and differences between interactionist dualism and epiphenomenalist dualism? [12 marks]
Outline some responses to the problem of other minds. [12 marks]