10/25 Introduction 339-346; Descartes 346-349; Shafer 350-354

1. As discussed in the introduction, what are the differences between ideal monism, the various forms of materialism (metaphysical behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, eliminative materialism), and the various forms of dualism (interactionism, epiphenomenalism, parallelism, panpsychism)?

2. According to Descartes, what distinguishes the mind from the body and humans from other animals?

3. What are the two objections to dualism, one pertaining to the intelligibility of the concept of mind, and the other to the complexity of dualism’s description of the world?