Arcing Mind Blog

This post will be critically evaluating the massive modularity hypothesis, the view that the mind is composed ONLY of a collection of evolved cognitive ‘modules’. It is important to note that the theory does not state that the mind has cognitive modules, but that these are the ONLY thing that the mind is comprised of. […]

Materialism concerning the philosophy of mind is often viewed as having a division between its reductive and non-reductive theories. Non-reductive materialism considers that whilst there are no concrete individuals in the world other than material particles (Kim, 1993), some physical things exhibit properties that cannot be reduced to physical properties. The primary motivation of the […]