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Philosophy of Mind

Substance Dualism and beyond...

Exploring the mind-body duality.

Introduction to Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind

Gilbert Ryle is an English philosopher whose main interests were language, behaviourism and philosophy of mind.

Intentionality and Gilbert Ryle

"Intentionality is the power of minds to be about, to represent,
or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. The puzzles
of intentionality lie at the interface between the philosophy of mind
and the philosophy of language."

Dualism and God

Related Classroom Roleplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_alHZOJBM

Is the Mind the Body? This guy thinks it is...

Philosophy of Mind 1/2 (with reference to Chinese Room experiment, computational theory)

Philosophy of Mind 2/2

The Brain / Mind philosophy

Just a short piece about the brain mind philosophical debate

 

John Searle: Beyond Dualism John Searle is an American philosopher interested in philosophy of mind. Here are some key elements of Searle's position. * Rejects computational theory of mind with his Chinese Room argument. * Rejects Cartesian dualism. Probably rejects property dualism as well. * Study of consciousness using scientific method IS possible. This is very much against previously conceived notion that goes something like "consciousness is known subjectively only, thus scientific inquiry from third person perspective cannot explain consciousness." * Reduction of consciousness to neurobiological phenomena is not strictly possible since nuerobiological phenomena loses the qualitative feel of subjectivity. One must tackle this problem directly without eliminating consciousness. * Rejects epiphenomenalism, so he admits free will is real. I think he now takes somewhat agnostic position on this issue.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRwOuE... Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctniu9... Part 3: title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFg4ikxHjY4" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFg4ik... Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5U8Hr... Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvUPU... Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnnOz5... Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MP-Re... Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Uqjo...

Preface...

Blogging is a new thing to me but it seems to be the way of the world these days, so time to catch up with the times.... Hopefully using this medium as a learning resource, I will be able to get more out of my learning than I normally would. Now, I can see me using this as a way of asking questions to come to a greater understanding of the topic - so bear in mind as I think out loud I may have grasped the wrong idea or perhaps exploring a new or different idea but am sure as the blog grows my understand and perception of the topic will change and take some kind of shape. Feel free to comment on my blog, critise what I am thinking or saying...