Philosophy of Mind

Named arguments and positions that concern consciousness, mental content and the relation of mind to body: anomalous monism as Davidson's account of mental events as physical events under no strict psychophysical law, functionalism as the position that mental states are defined by their causal role rather than their physical substrate, the Chinese room argument as Searle's case against strong artificial intelligence, and the knowledge argument as Frank Jackson's case that physical knowledge cannot capture subjective experience. Belongs here: a formulated argument or named position whose target question is the nature of mind, consciousness or mental content. Does not belong here: an argument whose target is meaning or language even where it bears on mind, grouped under Philosophy of Language instead.