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Here is some background material.
Dualism & Physicalism:    • What Philosophers Mean by "Mental" an...  
Princess Elisabeth's attack on Dualism:    • Princess Elisabeth's attack on Descar...  
Behaviorism:    • The Behaviorist Theory of Mind  
Putnam's attack on Behaviorism:    • Hilary Putnam's SuperSpartans attack...  

This is a video lecture about a the 1956 paper "Is Consciousness a Brain Process?" by U.T. Place. This lecture distinguishes the "is"s of identity, prediction, definition, and composition. And I explain how Place uses these distinctions to defend the identity theory from a common line of attack. The central idea is that the mindbrain identity theory is a scientific hypothesis, which cannot be rejected or disproven on logical grounds alone. This is part of an introductory philosophy course.