Chapter 3
What Are the Metaphysical Issues?
Metaphysical Positions
Conceptual Tools for Metaphysics
Ontology
Metaphysical Categories
Platos Metaphysics
Propositions of the Mind-Body Problem
Positions on the Mind-Body Problem
Descartess Arguments for Mind-Body Dualism
The Cartesian Compromise
Physicalism: An Alternative to Dualism
The Positive Case for Physicalism
Forms of Physicalism
Functionalism
Artificial Intelligence
Issues of Freedom and Determinism
Types of Freedom
Positions on Freedom
Hard Determinism
Objections to Libertarianism
The Positive Case for Determinism
Determinist Thinkers
Tenets of Libertarianism
Objections to Determinism
Types of Antideterminism
Arguments for Libertarianism
Compatibilism
Hierarchical Compatibilism (Frankfurt)
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