Activity 1

Paul Churchland

I disprove Paul Churchland’s philosophy for we have different

perspectives or beliefs on how he understands the idea of materialism and
dualism. Eliminative Materialism is the view that our ordinary
understanding of our mind is wrong, that since the mind cannot be
experienced by our senses, then the mind does not exist. What exists is the
physical brain and not the mind and that is something that I don’t agree
with. He came up with all these things because he contradicts the idea of
dualism, the idea that the mind and body are distinctly separate. The idea
of Churchland was not enough to convince me since I was presented by
the idea of dualism before materialism and I prefer the idea of the mind
and body being united and that the body is empty without the mind and vice
versa.