What are mental states or properties according to semantic physicalism, analytic behaviorism, the identity-theory and functionalism?

Sketch two arguments for and against functionalism and the identity-theory, respectively.

What is Frank Jackson‘s knowledge argument?

Sketch three ways philosophers have responded to the knowledge argument.

What is Levine’s explanatory gap argument?

Why according to Levine, is it futile to hope that future neuroscience will close the explanatory gap.

What is the so-called 'sandwich model of cognition' and what was one important historical motivation for adopting it in the first place?

Explain Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment. What is the position he was originally attacking? What was his own stance on the question whether humans are machines?

State and briefly explain Fodor’s Master Argument for the Computer Model of the Mind. What is the major problem with this argument?

State and briefly explain two arguments against the Computer Model of the Mind.

What was the reason why behaviorists rejected introspectionism? What was the reason why cognitive psychologists rejected behaviorism?

Which aspects of the Computer Model of the Mind are preserved by connectionism, which are given up or at least strongly modified?

In what sense is dynamicism an even more radical departure from the Computer Model of the Mind than connectionism?

Briefly state two arguments for connectionism.

Briefly state two arguments against connectionism.

Briefly state two arguments for dynamicism.

Briefly state two arguments against dynamicism.

In what sense does dynamism give up the Sandwich Model of Cognition?

What is a weakly embodied approach to cognition and what is one argument for adopting it?

What is one important problem for a weakly embodied approach and why does a strongly embodied approach avoid this problem?

What is the difference between an embedded and an extended approach to cognition? What role does the parity principle play in this context?

What is the traditional trilemma of free will?

Give a short characterization of the following positions: compatibilism, incompatibilism, event-causal libertarianism, hard determinism, leeway compatibilism, source compatibilism.

What is the major difference between leeway and source compatibilists?

What is the Consequence Argument, and what is its argumentative function in the argument for incompatibilism?

What is the luck objection against libertarianism?

What are Frankfurt-cases and what is their argumentative function in the argument for source compatibilism?

Describe the traditional distinction between reason and emotion as presented in the lecture. How are they categorized differently in terms of science and culture?

What is the primary assertion of William James’s somatic/feeling theory of emotions, and how does it contrast with the conventional understanding of emotional response?

Explain Martha Nussbaum’s neo-stoic approach to emotions. How does she conceptualize the relationship between emotions and evaluative judgments?

Identify and compare at least two alternative theories of emotions discussed in the lecture. What are the main features of these theories?

Differentiate between emotions, emotional episodes, moods, and existential

What are the main features of the two alternative theories of emotions discussed in the lecture?

Differentiate between emotions, emotional episodes, moods, and existential feelings. How do these affective phenomena vary in terms of their intentionality and duration?

What are the six ways of assessing the appropriateness of emotions as discussed in the lecture?

How is “fittingness” defined in the context of emotional appropriateness, and how does it differ from epistemic justification?

Describe the concept of “prudence” in evaluating emotions with an example provided in the slides.

What does the term “social/cultural/societal aptness” mean, and what role do emotional communities play in this context?

Explain the idea of “fundamentum in cultura” and provide an example from the slides that illustrates this concept.

What differentiates scaffolds from mere triggers or background conditions?

How do Mind Invasions differ from User-Resource Interactions and what do they have in common?

Think of an example of Mind Invasion. Which factors can you identify that support the effectiveness of the scaffold and in what ways do they influence the effectiveness.