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Thursday, November 10, 2011
359: Criticism of th Identity Theory
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Of course there are a lot of objections agains the Identity theory and physicalism or materialism, basically, the idea that mental states a...
Thursday, November 3, 2011
358: The Brain and back to the Identity Theory
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What I tried in my previous lecture was to get hold of mental states by introducing introspection as a means to gain knowledge of our menta...
Friday, October 21, 2011
355: The Identity Theory, a first evaluation
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The Identity theory is about the relation between brain states and mental states. Before we begin to address the question,"What are m...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
354: The Brain and the Identity Theory 3
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"The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. Strictly ...
Friday, October 14, 2011
353: The Brain and the Identity Theory 2
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As I said in the previous lecture, it was around the end of the 1950s, that materialism was taken seriously. And even then it was still laug...
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