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WorksheetsMind 9 Functionalism
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is Hempel's "hard" behaviourism"?
All propositions about mental states can be reduced to propositions that use the language of physics to talk about bodily states.
Propositions about mental states are propositions about dispositions.
All mental states are identical to brain states.
What is Ryle's "soft" behaviourism?
All propositions about mental states can be reduced to propositions that use the language of physics to talk about bodily states.
Propositions about mental states are propositions about dispositions.
All mental states are identical to brain states.
Mind-brain type identity theory says...
All propositions about mental states can be reduced to propositions that use the language of physics to talk about bodily states.
Propositions about mental states are propositions about dispositions.
All mental states are identical to brain states.
Eliminative materialism is the theory that...
All mental states are identical to brain states.
Some or all of the mental states/properties mentioned in everyday conversation don't exist.
Phenomenal properties are intrinsic, not extrinsic properties of experience.
Putnam's objection, that mental properties are not identical to physical properties because the same mental properties can relate to or supervene on different physical properties, is an objection to...
Paul Churchland's folk psychology argument.
Descartes' indivisibility argument.
Smart's type identity argument.
The concept of multiple realizability can be used as an objection to...
eliminative materialism.
mind-brain type identity theory.
philosophical behaviourism.
Putnam's uses the "super-Spartans" to argue that...
some mental states are distinct from behaviour.
all mental states cause specific behaviours.
there is an asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other people's mental states.
A theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy based on the core idea that mental states (beliefs, desires, being in pain, etc.) are constituted solely by their functional role—that is, they are causal relations to other mental states, sensory inputs, and behavioral outputs.
Behaviorism
Functionalism
Hylomorphism
Phenomenology
The radical claim that our ordinary, common sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common sense do not actually exist.
Conscious
Eliminative Materialism
Empiricist
Rationalist
Which theory posits that mental states are defined by their causal relations to sensory inputs, other mental states, and behavioral outputs?
Behaviorism
Functionalism
Dualism
Physicalism
According to eliminative materialism, what is the status of common-sense mental states?
They are identical to brain states.
They are intrinsic properties of experience.
They do not actually exist.
They are reducible to physical states.
What does Putnam's argument involving 'super-Spartans' suggest about mental states?
Mental states are purely behavioral.
Mental states can exist without corresponding behaviors.
Mental states are identical to brain states.
Mental states are reducible to physical properties.
Which of these philosophers supports Functionalism?
Hilary Putnam
Ned Block
John Searle
Gilbert Ryle
What does Ned Block's China Brain thought experiment show? (tick all that apply)
that the function of the mind could be replicated but not the phenomenal qualities
Functionalism cannot explain qualia
A functional duplicate of the human mind is not possible.
The human mind can be replicated within an entirely different machine table
What does John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment illustrate about machine state functionalism?
It is possible to replicate the human mind
None of the answers given by the man in the room have any intentionality
Computers will one day be able to think in the same way as humans
