Philosophy of Mind

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• Match each theory of mind with its defining claim.
• Match each thought experiment with the philosophical issue it is commonly used to examine.
• Which position claims that mental states are identical to specific physical states of the brain?
• According to functionalism, what makes a state a mental state?
• What is the central challenge raised by Mary in Frank Jackson's knowledge argument?
• In philosophy of mind, what does intentionality refer to?
• The philosophical problem of explaining how subjective experience arises from physical brain processes is known as the…
• According to Cartesian dualism, the mind is a nonphysical [____] distinct from the body.