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  1. Return to Philosophy: Asking Questions--Seeking Answers Student Resources

Chapter 10 Self Quiz

. What is/are the central question(s) in the part of philosophy of mind often called the "problem of other minds"?

. The mind-body problem falls squarely in the part of philosophy known as

. __________ is widely considered to be the first "modern" philosopher.

. Owing to the existence of properties such as consciousness, intentionality, and rationality, Descartes concluded

. Descartes believed that the

. __________ objected to substance dualism by wondering how-- if minds and matter are totally different kinds of things (i.e., metaphysically distinct substances)-- it is possible for them to causally interact with one another.

. Descartes speculated that the mind and body interact in the

. The mind-body problem is relevant to

. __________ proposed a memorably disparaging epithet for the dualist view, whereby the mind is a "ghost in the machine"

. For verificationists, a sentence can be literally meaningful

. According to verificationists, claims about the mental states of other people are verified by

. The behaviorist's answer to how mental states and processes are related to physical, biological, and behavioral phenomena is that mental states and processes are

. According to the philosophical behaviorists, if something behaves like a normal human under a wide variety of conditions, then we

. __________ challenges behaviorism by posing a thought experiment in which an actor perfectly exhibits the behavior characteristic of someone in pain even though he is not.

. For mind-brain identity theorists, the question "Which brain states are identical with which mental states" can only be answered by

. Of the following objections, which has/have been raised against the mind-brain identity theory?

. Functionalist maintains that pain is anything that plays the pain-role in a complex causal system that captures our widely shared, common-sense beliefs about

. For a functionalist, if a creature has a physical and chemical composition very different from ours,

. Eliminativists think that common-sense mental states, including beliefs, desires, and pains, are

. Besides the physical properties studied by physics, panpsychism holds that ordinary matter also has

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