Ph 24                                                                                                                                                                      Banach

Review for Midterm

 

A. ID and short essay:

 

Functionalism                                                                       Private Language argument                Philosophical Behaviorism

Heterophenomenological method                                     Epiphenomenalism                               Cartesian Theater

Substance Dualism                                                              Identity Theory                                    Eliminative Materialism

Multiple Drafts Theory                                                       Orwellian vs. Stalinesque                   Dual Aspect Theory

Intentional Stance                                                                Physical Stance                                    Functional Stance

Phi Phenomenon                                                                  zombies                                                  Libet’s Backwards

Feenoman                                                                              Baldwin Effect                             memes

Turing Machine                                                                   Von Neumann Machine                      parallel processing

Virtual machine                                                                     Cognitive niche                                   

 

B. Short Essays:

 

  1. What is the Multiple Drafts theory? How does it differ from the Cartesian Theater?

 

  1. What is Dennett’s argument for the Multiple Drafts Theory? How does it involve the Orwellian and Stalinesque interpretations of the Phi Phenomenon? How is it like the Private Language argument?

 

  1. How does Dennett explain Shakey’s mental images? How is this answer meant to be applied to Human thought?

 

  1. What are the major problems with Substance Dualism? What are the major arguments for it?

 

  1. How did the Mind-Body problem arise from the Scientific Revolution? How is our view of the mind tied to the problem of knowledge?

 

  1. What is Pinker’s Thesis about the evolution of Mind and Language? What does this say about how the mind works?

 

  1. What is Dennett’s theory of the construction or architecture of the mind and how it depends on its evolutionary history?

 

  1. How do interests, ends, and reasons come to exist where there were none, according to Dennett.