PHIL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Behaviorism, Epiphenomenalism, Property Dualism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 260
• Professor: A L Lison Barnes

Document Summary

Whether or not there is a self that persists over time. Whether or not you have access to your own beliefs. Ontology the study of the nature of being. An ontological position: mental and physical are separate substances with independent existence. How do the two interact: lack of detail. Epiphenomenalism a mental state has a non-physical: non-physical properties of mental states do not cause behaviour or action. Intention with a feature that causes a behaviour. Emergent phenomena when a number of entities operate in an environment forming more complex behaviours as a collective.