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A 3 page paper which summarizes and evaluates an article by Jaegwon Kim on the theories which have been put forward regarding the mind body problem. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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terms generated considerable interest and excitement; even though it soon became clear that such an explanation was not adequate, physicality remained as the basis for most of the later investigation
of the mind-body problem. Kim defines the mind-body problem as "finding a place for the mind in a world which is fundamentally physical" and
"accommodating the mental within a principled physicalist scheme while at the same time preserving is as something distinctive" (Kim, 1998). That is, if we consider our status as "creatures with
minds" as being something valuable, special and set apart from other creatures, we have to find an explanation for mind which is not based solely in physical properties, and which
demonstrates that there is a distinction between the mental and the physical even if the two are connected. Kim then goes on
to comment on functionalism and anomalous monism. Functionalism was, again, welcomed by many theorists, since it allowed mental and cognitive functions to be studied separately from physical and biological processes.
Anomalous monism separated the mental from the physical, asserting that mental processes could not be investigated through the same methodology that was used for physical ones (rather as one might
say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism states that even though all mental events are physical events, "there are no
laws connecting mental kinds or properties with physical ones" (Kim, 1998): although there is a link between the two, we cannot formulate laws which make a direct connection between them.
Kim points out that the problem here is the theory states what mind is not, rather than what it is. He compares
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