PSY 0816 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neutral Monism, Mental Substance, Monism

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 0816
• Professor: Kareem J.Johnson

Document Summary

1. 1 the first distinction:dualism and monism: definition of dualism (types of philosophical mind-body theory, dualistic theories say world consists of two different types of entities. Some say universe is at bottom thoroughly physical (materialism or physicalism: others say universe consists of nothing but mental substance across the board (idealism, others claim the universe, at the rock bottom level, is neither mental nor. 1. 2 dualistic theories of consciousness: dualistic theories of consciousness, both physical and subjective consciousness - real and exist on their own - don"t owe existence to other - radically different. Two way interaction between consciousness and physical reality: external world reaches into our consciousness - senses and perceives world, mind reaches out to the external world and thereby guides behavior of body at will. Three main alternatives to using dualistic theory: interactionism,epiphenomenalism,and parallelism, interactionism, main idea: there is two-way causal interaction between external physical reality and the subjective psychological reality, or brain and consciousness.