Chapter 4 Self-Quiz

. Descartes believed that interaction between body and mind took place in

. The idea that mental states are dispositions to behave in particular ways in certain circumstances is known as

. Logical behaviorism is at odds with our commonsense intuition that mental states

. Descartes says that the chief characteristic of physical things is that

. When Descartes reasons that it is conceivable that he could exist without his body and that whatever is conceivable is logically possible, he is offering a _______ argument.

. The contention that bodies and minds must be different things because bodies can be divided into parts but minds cannot is known as a _______ argument.

. The existence of a form of mental illness known as multiple personality disorder seems to suggest that

. Regarding mind and body, most contemporary philosophers are

. Substance dualism is said to violate the scientific principle of

. According to Descartes, the mind, or soul, is

. Descartes says that the mind is distinct from the body and

. Descartes asserts that he knows that he is a substance the whole essence of which is to

. Cartesian dualism posits

. According to Searle, the appropriately programmed computer

. Searle argues that the Chinese room thought experiment shows that

. Searle asserts that no computer program by itself, however sophisticated, is sufficient for

. Chalmers's zombie twin is identical to him

. Chalmers argues that his zombie is

. According to Block, the Chinese brain system has

. Nagel declares that the objective perspective is the true perspective.

. Searle believes that knowledge of what it is like to be a bat can be acquired through scientific investigation.

. Traditional philosophies of mind can be divided into dualist theories and materialist theories.

. Qualitative content is a problem for functionalism.

. Chalmers' theory is compatible with all the results of contemporary science.

. On Smart's view, there are sensations.

. Block says that the Chinese brain has a functional organization that brings a mind into existence.

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