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Monism
Mind-Body Problem
100
My behavior stems from both known and unknown causes
What is Determinism
100
The philosophical position that argues mental processes are produced by brain processes but the two are qualitatively different
What is Emergentism
100
This interactionist wrongly suggested the pineal gland was the seat of interaction
Who is Renee Decartes
100
The idea that there is a language for mental processes and a language for underlying physical processes, but both refer to the same reality
What is Double-Aspect Monism
100
The origin of psuche or the study of theories of psuche
What is Psychogeny
200
The idea that it is inaccurate to explain the world of subatomic particles in strictly cause-effect ways
What is Indeterminism
200
This is also referred to as the "commonsense" position
What is Interactionism
200
People like Sigmund Freud, John Watson, Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and Albert Einstein.
Who are determinists
200
The belief that mental processes, such as thoughts, are triggered and therefore dependent on the physical world
What is Epiphenomenalism
200
This position suggests relationships between an object and the words that are used to describe the object
What is Attributive Pluralism
300
The study of the nature and relations of being
What is Ontology
300
These are more sophisticated than analogies
What is a Model
300
Responsibility means nothing to me
What is determinist thinking
300
A monistic ontology in which matter is the fundamental constituent of all things
What is Materialism
300
According to this theory, psuche has no independent origin but develops with the developing body
What is Psychogenic Emergentism
400
The position in which mental events are real and that they influence other mental events and bodily events
What is Interactionism
400
I am a consequence of antecedents
What is Belief
400
A person of the position that neither the mental nor the physical worlds are mere appearances
What is a dualist
400
An ontology emphasizing mind or spirit as the preeminent feature of life
What is Idealism
400
Problems with this theory include the experienced continuity of consciousness (i.e. It is the same I or Me today as it was many years ago)
What is Psychogenic Emergentism
500
A conceptual framework marked by attempts to find logical, structural, or functional similarities between one thing and another
What are Models
500
These explanations are important in science but often leave us with more questions
What are quantitative explanations
500
A philosopher who argued that mind and body can be viewed as analagous to two clocks hanging on the wall that always read the same time
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
500
The belief that all science begins with experience and is about experience
What is Idealism
500
Theory that suggests 1) psuche is instilled in a being at a given time, and that 2) this is continuity/identity between the self instilled with psuche and the later, mature and self-reflexive adult
What is Identity Theory
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