1. Functionalism Eliminativism Prop Dualism MBIT Sub Dualism Behaviourism
What did Ryle mean by a ‘disposition’? [3 marks]
Briefly explain what Ryle means by a ‘category mistake’. [5 marks]
Briefly explain why the conceivability of a mental state without behaviour is a problem for logical behaviourism. [5 marks]
Outline the problem of circularity for Logical Behaviourism. [5 marks]
Outline some of the advantages of Logical Behaviourism [12 marks]
Assess the claim the mental states can be reduced to behaviour. [25 marks]
What is meant by describing a mental state as having a ’causal role’? [3 marks]
Briefly explain the inverted qualia argument against Functionalism. [5 marks]
Briefly explain the Chinese Mind argument against Functionalism. [5 marks]
Briefly explain one advantage Functionalism has over MiBIT [5]
Compare and contrast Functionalism with MBTIT. [12 marks]
Compare and contrast Functionalism with Substance Dualism. [12 marks]
Outline the reasons why some philosophers reject a Functionalist account of pain. [12]
Assess the claim that mental states can be reduced to their functional roles. [25 marks]
What is meant by ‘folk psychology’? [3 marks]
Why do eliminativist materialists claim that folk psychology is an empirical theory? [3 marks]
Briefly explain why eliminativists prefer to eliminate mental descriptions rather than reduce them to physical descriptions. [5 marks]
Briefly explain why eliminativists are critical of ‘folk psychology’. [5 marks]
Outline some of the reasons why some philosophers object to the eliminativist position. [12 marks]
Outline some of the reasons Churchland gives for eliminating ‘folk psychology’ [12 marks]
Assess the claim that we should eliminate all talk of the mental and replace it with statements about the brain. [25 marks]
Briefly explain the difference between an ontological and an analytical reduction. [5 marks]
Outline one advantage of MBIT over other theories of mind [5 marks]
Briefly explain the location problem [5 marks]
What is meant by the term ‘multiple realisability?’ [5 marks]
Outline some of the advantages MBTIT has over other physicalist theories [12 marks]
Are brain states ontologically reducible to brain states? [25 marks]
Assess the claim that reductive accounts of the mind in the end always fail [25 marks]
What are qualia? [3 marks]
What does ‘irreducible’ mean? [3 marks]
What is meant by ‘interactionist property dualism’? [3 marks]
What is meant by ‘epiphenomenalism’ [3]
Briefly explain what it is for mental properties to be ‘emergent’ [5 marks]
Briefly explain what is meant by describing mental properties as ‘irreducible’ [5 marks]
Outline Frank Jackson’s ‘What Mary Never Knew’ thought experiment [12 marks]
Outline the ‘Philosophical Zombie’ argument for property dualism [12 marks]
Outline reasons why some philosophers do not accept Jackson’s Knowledge Argument [12 marks]
Outline reasons why some philosophers do not agree that philosophical zombies prove property dualism [12 marks]
Assess property dualism. [25]
Assess the claim that non- reductive accounts of the mind fail to explain mental causation. [25]
What is Leibniz’s Law? [3 marks]
Briefly explain Descartes’ conceivability argument [5]
Briefly explain Descartes’ indivisibility argument [5 marks]
What are the similarities and differences between interactionist dualism and epiphenomenalist dualism? [12 marks]
Outline some responses to the problem of other minds. [12 marks]

2. More open essay questions on Mind:
Do non-physical mental states exist?
Assess the claim that mind and brain interact.
Assess the claim that mental states do not depend on human brains.
“No physicalist theory of mind can account for qualia.” Assess this claim.