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Jun 16, 2023 · The mind is about mental processes, thoughts, and consciousness. The body is about the physical aspects of the brain-neurons and how the brain is structured. Is the mind part of the body, or the body part of the mind? If they are distinct, then how do they interact? And which of the two is in charge?
Jul 27, 2024 · Dualism is a philosophical concept that states that the mind and the body are separate, and therefore physical phenomena are not mental and vice versa. Learn more here.
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Philosophers address the questions we care about for which there is no specialized – typically empirical – methodology, says Derk Pereboom, Susan Linn Sage Professor in Philosophy and Ethics and Stanford H. Taylor '50 Chair of the Sage School. In psychology, two of those questions philosophy addresses are, what’s the right model for cognition and h...
Dubreuil’s new book, “The Intellective Space,” focuses on the distinction between thinking and thought. There is a process in our minds, he says, that bypasses cognitive structure, which he calls “intellection.”His extensive research in experimental psychology, literature and philosophy led him to conclude that “we say more than we think; we think ...
Philosophers often use thought experiments to explore ideas; one of the most famous ones involves a character named Mary: Mary is a brilliant scientist of the future who lives in a room that only displays shades of black, white and gray. Mary has learned everything there is to know about the physical functioning of the world; she knows everything a...
One approach to understanding language and how it shapes (or has been shaped) by the mind is through the study of literature. Dubreuil’s current research rests at the intersection of cognitive science and poetry, what he calls the mental experience of poetry: how poetry is read and understood in the mind and how literature goes beyond simple cognit...
Nicholas Silins, associate professor of philosophy, examines the mind through questions relating to perception, drawing on the fields of philosophy, vision science and the theory of probability to answer how exactly we learn from our visual experiences of the world. “The way you see the world can directly give you evidence that the world is the way...
Technological metaphors have always been used to explain the mind: John Locke described an infant’s mind as a blank slate; Freud compared the mind to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. The current favorite metaphor is that the mind is a computer. John Hale, associate professor of linguistics, works in the area of computational linguistics, par...
Dec 27, 2023 · The debate about the mind–body connection has been around for millennia. From ancient philosophers and religions to modern science, there have been different views on whether the mind and the body are related, if they can affect each other, and how that interaction can be possible.
The Mind-Body Distinction. One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.”
A key difference between mind and body is that the body, which in humans and other animals includes the brain, can be seen and observed by empirical investigation, whereas even though processes of mind are physically instantiated, you are not going to open up a brain and find “a mind.”
