Write an essay of not less than 750 words and not more than 1250 words in which you conduct a rigorous philosophical investigation by
1. Explaining the Mind-Body problem and the Computationalist and Cartesian Interactionist solutions to it as if to someone who is a quick study but has never encountered this terminology before;
2. Set out in standard (numbered) form the four best arguments you have seen in class for Computationalism, noting of course that an argument against Cartesian Interactionism constitutes an argument for Computationalism under the second of our stipulations;
3. Set out in standard (numbered) form the four best arguments you have seen in class for Cartesian Interactionism, noting of course that an argument against Computationalism constitutes an argument for Cartesian Interactionism under the second of our stipulations;
4. Construct an appendix to the essay in which you i) translate each argument into PC and ii) construct an Analytic Tableaux of each PC-translation so as to demonstrate validity.
5. Systematically evaluate the arguments so as to ascertain which of the two solutions, Computationalism or Cartesian Interactionism, has the better arguments on its behalf.
The standard form (numbered, but in English) of the eight arguments will count towards your word total, but nothing of the formal analysis in the appendix will.