"The Nature of Mind" Self-Quiz

. Armstrong ultimately suggests that a philosophy of mind should . . .

Follow the discoveries and hypotheses of science.

Follow religious doctrines that are important to humanity.

Be developed using strict logic.

None of the above.

. Physicalists and materialists offer accounts of the nature of mind that are . . .

Incompatible with behaviorism

Incompatible with the view that we are simply physico-chemical mechanisms

Compatible with behaviorism

Compatible with the view that we are simply physico-chemical mechanisms

. What, roughly, is behaviorism?

The view that we are composed of a mind and a body

The view that we are simply physical and chemical processes

The view that the mind is simply part of physical behavior

The view that the mind is an inner principle

. Why does Armstrong ultimately reject behaviorism?

It is necessarily incompatible with a physicalist account of the mind

It cannot account for the phenomenon of thinking

It posits a "ghost in the machine"

It cannot account for our third-personal experience of behavior

. How does Armstrong propose we conceive of the mind?

A so-called "ghost in the machine"

As outward behavior

A disposition to behave in certain ways

An inner principle identified with outward behavior

. Armstrong embraces the influence that modern science is having on philosophy.

True

False

. Armstrong holds that there was plenty of intellectual consensus before the advent of modern science.

True

False

. Brittleness is an example of a disposition.

True

False

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