Philosophy of mind facts for kids

A phrenological mapping of the brain – phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain although it is now largely discredited.

Philosophy of mind is thinking about how the mind works and goes about in a relationship with everything else in the world. It also concerns consciousness which is researched in psychology and physics, as well.

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  René Descartes' illustration of mind/body dualism.

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  Portrait of René Descartes by Frans Hals (1648)

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  The classic Identity theory and Anomalous Monism in contrast. For the Identity theory, every token instantiation of a single mental type corresponds (as indicated by the arrows) to a physical token of a single physical type. For anomalous monism, the token–token correspondences can fall outside of the type–type correspondences. The result is token identity.

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  John Searle—one of the most influential philosophers of mind, proponent of biological naturalism (Berkeley 2002)

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  Since the 1980s, sophisticated neuroimaging procedures, such as fMRI (above), have furnished increasing knowledge about the workings of the human brain, shedding light on ancient philosophical problems.

See also

In Spanish: Filosofía de la mente para niños