Do Personality Features Influence Our Intuitions of the Mind-Body Problem? A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: The elusive relationship between the mental domain and the physical brain, known as the mind-body problem, is still a hot topic of discussion among philosophers and neuroscientists. Rather than solving this problem, our pilot study addresses the question as to whether personality features could influence intuitions of the mind-body problem, or more precisely, whether it is possible to identify a person's intuitive inclinations toward dualism or materialism and their inclinations toward reduction of the mind to the brain. For the purposes of this pilot study, we developed a questionnaire, which employed several theories of analytic philosophy of the mind, in order to determine which category the participants would belong to. These main categories were dualism, non-reductive materialism and

SUBMITTER: Havlik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062648 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature