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Analysis (philosophy)

Students must be able to: analyse a philosophical problem or position into its component parts and be able to tell how they are connected together; analyse an argument into premises and conclusions, and reconstruct the structure of the argument, filling in implicit premises where necessary; analyse philosophical texts into sections and be able to see the connections between sections.

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Conscious agents in a world of mindless particles

A third reason for the centrality of the mind is that, for many of us, myself included, the central question in philosophy at the beginning of the…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #physics #human-nature #philosophical-problems

How thoughts reach out to the world

The special philosophical problem of intentionality is this: suppose that I now believe that George W. Bush is in Washington. The question arises, How can my…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #intentionality #reference #philosophical-problems

Mapping out the problems ahead

What I have tried to do in this chapter is to present the framework for the discussions that will follow. The problems will not be treated as of equal weight…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #philosophy-of-mind #philosophical-problems

Neither dualism nor materialism is acceptable

We end this chapter in a depressing intellectual state: neither dualism nor materialism is acceptable and yet they are presented to us as the only…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #dualism #materialism #philosophical-problems

Neuroethics

Neuroethics refers to two related fields of study: What the philosopher Adina Roskies has called the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics…

Neuroethics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #ethics #neuroscience #philosophical-problems

Philosophy is full of apparent contradictions

We ended the last chapter with an apparent contradiction of the sort that is typical in philosophy. On the one hand we accept a view that seems overwhelmingly…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #philosophy #philosophical-problems #freedom #morality