Mind, Body, and Personal Identity: Philosophy Unit 3, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Mind, Body, and Personal Identity is Unit 3 of Philosophy and Logic: Reasoning About Reality, Knowledge, and Value (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Philosophy course, complete in one printable PDF: 11 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 99 pages.

• Descartes’ conceivability argument for substance dualism
• The independence of validity and soundness applied to the conceivability argument
• Identity theory and functionalism as physicalist theories of mind
• The hard problem of consciousness (explanatory gap between function and experience)
• The philosophical zombie thought experiment as a tool against physicalism
• Psychological continuity theory and bodily/physical continuity theory of personal identity
• Personal identity criteria applied to a novel duplication case
• Hard determinism, libertarian free will, and compatibilism as positions on free will
• Application of free-will positions to real-world responsibility-attribution cases
• A defended position on the mind-body problem under live objection
• The general relationship between empirical evidence and the explanatory gap

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.