Philosophy
Taught my middle school class yesterday and the kids went bananas over the mind/body problem. So, I figure, let's try it here.
Are the mind and the brain the same thing?
- Mental Health Parity And Identity
One of most celebrated questions in philosophy is the mind/body problem, that is, are the mind and the brain the same thing or different things. If they are different, how, if at all, are they interconnected? Let's take an oblique approach to this...
- Descartes, Dualism And Monism
Let?s assume that both you and me do have minds; I guess it would be way easier to think this post over if you had some free mind to use. Otherwise the idea of thought without a mind might get a little bit tricky ? but as you?re about to see, thought...
- Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! Since I've been interested in the philosphy of mind for some time already, I decided a few days ago that I should finally find a way to share my views on the subject - so here I am! I will try to write as much as I know and do...
- Do Brains Make Minds?
Despite a long tradition of scholars and lay people thinking (and wishing) otherwise, modernity has revealed a paradigm of materialism in which even the mind is somehow reducible to, caused by, or sustained by physical brain processes. Ontological and...
- "suspense"...otr Offering--"donovan's Brain"
Another Halloween offering from Old Time Radio's Suspense when your mind's eye was paramount. Here is a radio adaptation of Curt Siodmak's 1942 science fiction novel Donovan's Brain staring Orson Welles. Wikipedia... The novel is written...
Philosophy
Mind/Brain
Taught my middle school class yesterday and the kids went bananas over the mind/body problem. So, I figure, let's try it here.
Are the mind and the brain the same thing?
- Mental Health Parity And Identity
One of most celebrated questions in philosophy is the mind/body problem, that is, are the mind and the brain the same thing or different things. If they are different, how, if at all, are they interconnected? Let's take an oblique approach to this...
- Descartes, Dualism And Monism
Let?s assume that both you and me do have minds; I guess it would be way easier to think this post over if you had some free mind to use. Otherwise the idea of thought without a mind might get a little bit tricky ? but as you?re about to see, thought...
- Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! Since I've been interested in the philosphy of mind for some time already, I decided a few days ago that I should finally find a way to share my views on the subject - so here I am! I will try to write as much as I know and do...
- Do Brains Make Minds?
Despite a long tradition of scholars and lay people thinking (and wishing) otherwise, modernity has revealed a paradigm of materialism in which even the mind is somehow reducible to, caused by, or sustained by physical brain processes. Ontological and...
- "suspense"...otr Offering--"donovan's Brain"
Another Halloween offering from Old Time Radio's Suspense when your mind's eye was paramount. Here is a radio adaptation of Curt Siodmak's 1942 science fiction novel Donovan's Brain staring Orson Welles. Wikipedia... The novel is written...