Philosophical Approaches to the Mind

Опубликовано: 13 Июль 2026
на канале: Ryan Rhodes

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What is a mind, and what is its relationship to the body? How can we resolve the mind-body problem? In this video, we'll get into some of the philosophical perspectives on these deep and lingering questions!

0:00 - Intro
1:59 - Platonic dualism
4:06 - Substance dualism
6:38 - Problems with dualism
7:58 - More dualism
13:27 - Monism
14:21 - Idealism
16:48 - Physicalism
20:25 - Aristotelian physicalism
22:45 - Wrapping up
24:54 - Key concepts

Sources:
Friedenberg & Silverman (2021). Cognitive Science: An introduction to the study of the mind. Chapter 2. https://books.google.com/books?id=P9d...
Robinson (2020). Dualism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/f...
Guyer & Horstmann (2022). Idealism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/s...
Smart (2017). The mind/brain identity theory. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/s...