WorksheetsPart 3 property dualism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of these is NOT an objection to Mary's room?
Mary gains ABILITY knowledge
Mary gains AQUAINTANCE knowledge
Mary gains PROPOSITIONAL knowledge
Which of these 2 thinkers thought that if Mary really knew all the propositional facts in advance that she would be able to work out what colour looks like from within the room?
Frank Jackson
David Chalmers
Patricia Churchland
Daniel Dennett
Jackson responded to objections to his thought experiment. He argued Mary DOES gain propositional knowledge and gave some examples. Which of these was NOT one of his examples?
Mary learns facts about what it is like to see colour.
Mary learns the fact of what others have
She can wonder about the fact that she might not be seeing colours the same as other people.
Mary learns the fact of what emotions colours bring out in people.
What was the name of the last response to Mary's room we looked at? (Sorry this is a bit of an annoying question)
Old knowledge/new facts
New knowledge/old facts
Old facts/new knowledge
New knowledge/old facts
Quizzez made me add in extra questions so I'm just going to ask some general philosophy of mind questions here okay :)
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What is meant by the term "qualia"?
Qualia are the subjective, qualitative aspects of "what it's like" to have conscious experiences.
In philosophy of mind, what is "phenomenology" the study of?
Brains
Experience
Properties
Souls
What therefore does "phenomena" in this context refer to?
Experiential content
Brain chemistry
The properties of souls
The nature of properties
Who coined the term "the hard problem of consciousness"?
Leibniz
David Chalmers
Daniel Dennett
Frank Jackson
Which of these articulates "the hard problem of consciousness"? (The other is the easy problem btw)
How to identify what the brain's component parts do e.g. the hippocampus is responsible for memory storage
How is it that neurological functions bring about conscious subjective experiences? "Why is the performance of these functions accompanied by experience?"
