Substance Dualism
Who are two philosophers who advocated the idea of substance dualism?
Plato and Descartes
When discussing the existence of the soul who was Pinker talking about soul one and soul two with?
Dawkins
What is Dualism
The belief that we have two elements - body and soul
What are the three parts of Plato's the tripartite Soul?
Driver
White Horse
Black Horse
What is the Latin term used by Descartes to mean "I think, therefore I am?"
Cogito ergo sum
What is the name for good ideas that are copied and passed down as they are successful?
memes
What is the term given to the philosophical principle that it is usually best to take the simplest explanation?
Ockham's Razor
What is the definition of soul one?
the traditional view of the soul
What is the name given to the radical method of doubt used by Descartes where he firstly doubted all he knew and then built his knowledge from there?
Cartesian scepticism
Fill in the blank ---- in the machine? - Ryle
Ghost
What did Gilbert Ryle accuse Descartes of making?
A Category error
What is the name of the philosopher who argued against Descartes explanation of substance dualism?
Name two of the arguments used by Plato that he uses to prove the existence of a soul?
The Argument From Opposities
The Argument from Recollection
The Argument from affinity
What is the area of the brain Descartes has linked to the soul?
pineal gland
What is behaviourism?
The belief that all mental states are simply learned behaviours of bodies
According to Aristotle's view of the body and soul if the body were an eye what would the soul be?
the ability to see
What does the driver represent in Plato's analogy of the tripartite Soul?
The rational part of the soul which desires knowledge of the forms
Who proposes that humans are only ‘survival machines’- a mixture of chemicals, and everything can be reduced to the physical?
Dawkins