Sensations and Brain Processes — J.J.C Smart

Notes from Smart’s Essay on Philosophy of Mind (Physicalism)

Background

1. This paper was published in the 1950s and brings light to the theory of mind-brain…

Of Identity and Diversity — John Locke

Notes from John Locke on Principle of Individuation

Background

• John Locke’s philosophy belongs to the traditions of scholastic, in an attempt to merge Christianity with Greek…

What Is It Like To Be A Bat? — Nagel

Notes from Thomas Nagel’s Essay On Consciousness

Background

• This article was written in the 1970s and has become a very famous article on the topic of philosophy of the mind.

On Personal Identity – Michaels Meredith

Notes from Michaels Meredith On Personal Identity

TLDR:

Michaels Meredith in this piece does not really form a theory of personal identity but brings up two analogies as…

A Treatise Of Human Nature – David Hume

Notes from David Hume on Personal Identity

Background

• David Hume is an empiricist and a skeptic but also an atheist writing this famous meditation on personal identity in…

Meditations — Descartes

Notes on Descartes 1st, 2nd & 6th Meditation

Background

1. Descartes was writing in the 16th century where witnessing other thinkers such as Copernicus and Galileo… being exiled and killed by the church…