The Philosophical Journey, 2/e

William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for Ultimate Reality

Overview: The Mind-Body Problem

True or False


1	The most common version of dualism is reductionism.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Believers in dualist interactionism maintain that the mind and the body causally affect one another.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Metaphysical idealists and identity theorists agree at least that the body is a physical thing.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Although eliminativists deny the existence of any nonphysical mind, they think we should continue to use the language of mental vocabulary since this is often more convenient than talk of brain states.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Functionalists reject eliminativism's claim that there are no mental events.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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