Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Of the theories listed below which one is not a version of physicalism?
		A)	eliminativism
		B)	interactionism
		C)	identity theory
		D)	reductionism


2	Which one of the following questions does not express a common criticism of Cartesian dualism?
		A)	How does interaction occur?
		B)	What about the success of brain science?
		C)	What about the conservation of energy?
		D)	Does the fact that two things always occur together necessarily imply that they are identical?


3	What does the story of Phineas Gage suggest?
		A)	One's personality can be greatly affected by the state of one's brain.
		B)	The state of the brain has little impact on one's personality.
		C)	The mind has amazing powers of healing physical wounds so that scars are not even noticeable.
		D)	There's good scientific reason to take ESP seriously.


4	Which of the following statements best expresses how an identity theorist would characterize talk about beliefs, pains, and desires?
		A)	It's identical to talk about states of a mental substance.
		B)	It's reducible to talk about brain states.
		C)	It's meaningless and should be avoided.
		D)	It's meaningful only when speaking about oneself, not when making claims about other people.


5	Which of the claims below is not an advantage of identity theory discussed in your text?
		A)	It avoids the difficulty of supposing that two radically different kinds of substance causally interact.
		B)	It avoids picturing the mind as some kind of mysterious, immaterial substance.
		C)	It avoids the problem that there seem to be aspects of our mental lives (such as what it's like to see red) accessible only to ourselves, not to outside observers.
		D)	It does justice to the success of neuroscience, while still allowing us to keep our everyday ways of speaking about mental phenomena.

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