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PHILOSHOPY (Philosophy & Neuroscience (mindblindness (from Autism &…
PHILOSHOPY
Philosophy & Neuroscience
mindblindness
from Autism & Asperger’s syndrom
autism
characteristic failure to relate to other people in the usual way
asperger’s syndrome
manifested primarily by inability to function in the social arena
definition
to be a philospher is to love wisdom
interested in issues related to epistomology
rationalist view
started by Plato but made famous by Rene Descartes
believes
mind is primary source of knowledge, fundamentally rational, representational, and rule-governed
truth can best be discovered by reason and factual analysis
All ideas in our minds does not come from our senses but exists from birth (innate)
Immanuel Kant
through our mind & the a priori categories in the mind
empiricist view
Proposed by John Locke
ideas come through experience & sensation
denies that humans have innate
mind body problem
relationship between the mind (mental process) and body (bodily process or brain)
attempt to address the problem
dualism
human soul does not perish with the body & that God exists
non physical entity
conscious reasoning, ideas, knowledge and intelligence reside here
physical entity
experience the world through our senses
materialist view
proposed by Democritus
the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter
the operation of the mind can be understood strictly in terms of the functions of the brain (avoid the dualism problem
human mentality is more than rule-governed manipulation of symbols in the computer
psychophysical parallelism
proposed by Leibniz
everything was created by God in the universe to be in perfect harmony
philosophy & linguistics
The structures of our language may exert some influence on the way we organise our world
language is used conveys one’s ideologies, ideas about the world
to love wisdom