Soul, Mind and Body

The belief that the mind and the body both exist as two distinct and separate entities.

• Substance Dualism

• Behaviourism

• Materialism

• Separationism

The view that mental events are identical with physical occurrences in the brain. Also known as 'Identity Theory'.

• Reductive materialism

• Substance dualism

• Parallelism

• Homunculus - The Little Man theory

Which term refers to our sense of awareness or perception?

• Soul

• Body

• Conscience

• Consciousness

When a problem of language arises as things are talked about as if they belong to one category when in fact they belong to another eg. What colour is 8:00am?

• Categorical imperative

• Category Error

• Language Games

• Linguistic Mystery

Which of these descriptions is not an understanding of the term 'Soul'?

• The non-physical or spiritual essence of a person

• The mind, as distinct from the brain

• The formal cause of a human

• The physical essence of a person

Which of these arguments was not used by Plato to defend the existence of a immortal soul?

• The argument from opposites (qualities depend on status in relation to opposite eg hot/cold, life/death)

• Meno's Slave

• The Myth of Er

• Cogito ergo sum

Who, in his treatise De Anima ('On the Soul') began by saying that 'the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life'.

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Heraclitus

Aristotle argued that the soul is the formal cause, or characteristics, of a thing. He illustrates this by pointing out that the soul of the axe would be...

• It's handle and blade

• In the wood that it chops

• In the eye of the beholder

• In its ability to chop wood

Which one of the following scholars could be described as a substance dualist?

• Gilbert Ryle

• Richard Dawkins

• Rene Descartes

• David Hume

Descartes argued that we should treat much of empirical knowledge with scepticism and doubt. His first principle in his work 'Meditations on First Philosophy' demonstrates there are some things we can know, 'cogito ergo sum' which translates as...

• I think therefore I am

• No man is born unto him/herself alone

• A fool can perform basic sums

• I breathe therefore I feel