Monday, July 27, 2009

Hurrah for Summer Homework!

1. Research and explain the difference between substance and property dualism. (Use Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and others, do not simply copy and paste).

2. Summarise Ryle’s notion of ‘The Ghost in the Machine’ you could try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdlh8ACEHxk

3. Explain why materialism and physicalism can be regarded as ‘reductive’.

4. Investigate the claim that Descartes’ substance dualism leads to solipsism.

5. Work out what P.F Strawson means when he claims that ‘the concept of a person is logically prior to that of an individual consciousness’.

6. Buy and read Daniel C Dennett’s ‘Consciousness Evolves

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