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- 1. Multiple Choice
Cartesian dualism claims...
...minds do not depend on bodies to exist.
...minds depend on bodies to exist.
...minds and bodies have the same properties.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of these illustrates Descartes' indivisibility argument?
hands
qualia
perception
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these are objections to Descartes' indivisibility argument?
We can conceive of some physical things being smaller.
Not everything physical is divisible.
Descartes assumes the mind is an ontologically distinct substance.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Descartes' conceivability argument contains the statement:
It is possible that mind can exist without body.
If two things have different properties, that proves that they cannot be one and the same thing.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Descartes' assertion that mind without body is conceivable is challenged by...
philosophical behaviourism
interactionism
epiphenomenalism
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of these statements refers to metaphysical impossibility?
The existence of something that defies the laws of nature.
Something that doesn't make sense conceptually.
Something being what it is not.
- 7. Multiple Choice
The conceptual interaction problem is concerned with...
how the mind can cause the body to move.
how the mind can exist.
the generation of energy by a mind.
- 8. Multiple Choice
The empirical interaction problem is concerned with...
how the mind can cause the body to move.
how the mind can exist.
the generation of energy by a mind.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What issue does Descartes never discuss?
How the mind can cause the body to move.
How we can know there are other minds.
How we can make conceptual mistakes.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Who referred to substance dualism as "the dogma of the ghost in the machine"?
Ryle
Hempel
Avramides
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