Identity Theory of Mind | Philosophy Glossary

What is an Identity Theory in philosophy? And specifically, what is the identity theory of mind? What different kinds of identity theory are there, and what problems do they have? You'll know in 5 minutes of this Philosophy Glossary explainer!

Sorry about the sound quality in this one – I completely messed up the recording!

More Philosophy Glossary:

00:00 - Intro
00:22 - What is an identity theory?
00:55 - In Philosophy of mind
01:31 - Not about meaning
02:15 - Different kinds of identity theory
03:13 - Problems for type-type theory
03:45 - Token-token Identity theory
04:41 - Brief history of identity theory
05:05 - Identity theory today
05:32 - Wrap up

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[haileylarocque]

This video was awesome and very informative!

[das.gegenmittel]

Your videos are Great! Thx. 🎉

Question:
If you would have a working theory for the the ship of theseus Problem, what would you do with it?

Publish at the next pub? 😅

[kito-]

potentially stupid question:
token identity theorists say something like the following:
pain1 = c-fibre firing
pain2 = d-fibre firing
so what makes tokens pain1 and pain2 both pains? Are token identity theorists committed to functionalism?

[doyouthinkitsdead]

Thanx for this, trying and failing to get my head around it. This video lesson does help a bit tho. So cheers!

[Yanoni]

Thanks for the great video/
one question that i still wondering about is what are the arguments against token identity ?

[nihahlh]

It’s interesting how some philosophers who are materialist insist that animals don’t have the level of thinking that humans do. So based on this explanation, the materialist doesn’t seem to preoccupy themselves with the worry of brain states correlating to the mind in animals - I’m not sure if their theory would be a type-type theory?