In This Selection Churchland Examines Functionalism and the Two Prominent

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In this selection Churchland examines functionalism and the two prominent versions of materialism in philosophy of mind. Reductivism claims that there is an identity of mental states with brain states. Functionalism rejects any one-to-one correlation between mental types and physical types and concentrates on the relationship between inputs and outputs. For example, the mental event of pain could be similar in two beings that have altogether different types of bodies and brains. Most functionalists are materialists, but someone could be a functionalist and be a nonmaterialist. Eliminative materialism is more radical than either of these other theories and seeks to eliminate "folk psychology"-talk of beliefs, feelings, and perceptions-in favor of more scientific descriptions of what is going on in the brain. Churchland concludes that the truth may be a combination of the two materialist theories, although the evidence points more in the direction of eliminativism.
-According to Nagel, what we can say about physicalism is that

• A) it is false.
• B) it is true.
• C) we do not have any conception of how it might be true.
• D) we have a conception of how it might be true.

Understand the significance of accidents and diseases as factors affecting mortality across different age groups.

Understand the behaviorist theory regarding gender development.

Recognize the influence of gender schemas on behavior.

Analyze Freud's psychoanalytic theory and its implications on gender development.