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“What is mind?  Where is it located?  How can we understand mind in a physical universe?”  These are the questions my PHIL 520 class purports to address.  So far we’ve covered dualism and are beginning this week into behaviorism.  Now, I’ve battled dualism, and behaviorism is a necessary evil, a stepping stone in the history of psychology; but I’m looking forward to plugging away at these so as to get to the good stuff.  More later, but suffice to say I can’t wait to work with this a little more as the semester progresses.

Meanwhile, do you have answers to any of the above questions?  What leads you to your answers?  What questions do these bring up?  I’m thinking: what if the presupposition of a physical universe (qua materialistic) is fallacious to begin with?  But do I have reason to even raise that question apart from my own assumptions about Christian ontology?

Actually, I do, and it rests on the constitution of the physical.  But that’s certainly for another time.

“What is mind?  Where is it located?  How can we understand mind in a physical universe?”  These are the questions my PHIL 520 class purports to address.  So far we’ve covered dualism and are beginning this week into behaviorism.  Now, I’ve battled dualism, and behaviorism is a necessary evil, a stepping stone in the history of psychology; but I’m looking forward to plugging away at these so as to get to the good stuff.  More later, but suffice to say I can’t wait to work with this a little more as the semester progresses.

Meanwhile, do you have answers to any of the above questions?  What leads you to your answers?  What questions do these bring up?  I’m thinking: what if the presupposition of a physical universe (qua materialistic) is fallacious to begin with?  But do I have reason to even raise that question apart from my own assumptions about Christian ontology?

Actually, I do, and it rests on the constitution of the physical.  But that’s certainly for another time.