PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gie, Causal Closure, Pineal Gland

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1301
• Professor: karinavold

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Arguments for distinction between mind and body: argument from knowledge, argument from extension, conceivability argument, des(cid:272)artes" (cid:448)ie(cid:449): interactionist substance dualism (mind and body different (cid:858)su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:859) Mind and bodies are different things (do not share all the same properties, law of identity: the human body is a material thing. Subject to physical laws such as gravity and so on. Can be broken apart and divided: the human mind is an immaterial thing. Eg. phineas gage and pole thru head influenced his personality: matter cannot interact with immaterial things. How can something not in space touch something that is (mind interact w body) First reply: elisa(cid:271)eth(cid:859)s (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) (cid:449)as (cid:858)bad(cid:859, something about a rock has its own weight. Elisabeth 2: did(cid:374)(cid:859)t a(cid:374)s(cid:449)e(cid:396) (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) still does(cid:374)(cid:859)t say ho(cid:449) i(cid:373)(cid:373)ate(cid:396)ial i(cid:374)te(cid:396)a(cid:272)ts (cid:449)ith material, des(cid:272)a(cid:396)tes is o(cid:374)ly defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g soul as (cid:858)(cid:374)ot (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ial(cid:859) a(cid:374)d thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (cid:894)does(cid:374)(cid:859)t gi(cid:448)e (cid:272)lea(cid:396) definition)