Ted Honderich
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198242826
- eISBN:
- 9780191680588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198242826.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics/Epistemology
The question that have been considered in previous chapters had something to do with how the mind is related to the brain, or the relation between mental and neural events. In particular, it was ...
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The question that have been considered in previous chapters had something to do with how the mind is related to the brain, or the relation between mental and neural events. In particular, it was questioned how a mental event exactly is related to the particular neural event to which it is intimately related and thus with which it is simultaneous. The identity theory in its various forms attempts an answer to this question of the psychoneural relation. As the Correlation Hypothesis is supplemented, it brings about a Union Theory that leads to the question which seeks to find out an explanation for mental events. Answers to this and other questions partly depend for their worth on, and can be tested by, what they include or entail by way of answers to the second question which is the explanation of mental events.Less
The question that have been considered in previous chapters had something to do with how the mind is related to the brain, or the relation between mental and neural events. In particular, it was questioned how a mental event exactly is related to the particular neural event to which it is intimately related and thus with which it is simultaneous. The identity theory in its various forms attempts an answer to this question of the psychoneural relation. As the Correlation Hypothesis is supplemented, it brings about a Union Theory that leads to the question which seeks to find out an explanation for mental events. Answers to this and other questions partly depend for their worth on, and can be tested by, what they include or entail by way of answers to the second question which is the explanation of mental events.
