Essays Tagged: "Paul Churchland"
Metaphysics.
re there is much more that we haven'tfigured out yet. I personally found "A Critique of Dualism" by Paul Churchland, which weread in class, particularly persuading towards a monist's position. He clai ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Paul Churchland's Argument Against Dualism
substances. Therefore, he was not able to prove his philosophy in detail.Here are the arguments of Paul Churchland on dualism as according to the article of Lee (2004):- simplicity of materialism- th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Identity Theory and Folk Psychology
n my opinion, these two theories are compatible- folk psychology provided "explanatory hypothesis" (Churchland, 459) for the identity theory, and the identity theory allows for mental states to be cau ... as a common sense psychology. The general law in folk psychology provides "explanatory hypothesis" (Churchland, 459) for identity theory. As Guttenplan points out that "for many cognitive theories are ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology