Discussion Questions

DQ 1

“Gilbert Ryle, a contemporary analytic philosopher, has called Descartes’s mind-body construction a “ghost in a machine.” How is this an appropriate analogy”(Mitchell, 2019, p. 246), if it is? In other words, was Descartes right to conceive human beings in this way?

DQ 2

Compare Descartes’ skepticism with Hume’s. In what ways are they alike? In what ways are they different” (Mitchell, 2019, p. 245).

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