Philosophy Overdose
Professor John Campbell gives a series of introductory lectures on the philosophy of mind at Berkeley.
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30 Dennett – True Believers & The Intentional Stance (Part 2)
I have a problem understanding how a psychotic episode can't be reduced to a pattern of synaptic firings. Also it seems contradictory or at least the fallacy of equivocation to say everything is physical but psychological causes are not physical causes. However you want to define psychological that definition is physical or not. If it is then contradiction. If it's not then you are using different senses of the word physical. Fallacy of equivocation. Furthermore. It's very easy to distinguish between punishable and/or containable acts from those that are not without intentional stratedy. On the one hand there are behaviors which punishment can decrease. This includes careless manslaughter since stimuli can make neurons fire to make an indivudual more careful. There are behaviors that punishment might not have an effect on like a psychopath who won't stop. Containment can stop this. Now a behavior like someone stepping on your toe because someone else pushed them can't be decreased with punishment. And can't be contained by putting that individual in prison for life. There is a significant difference in probability of decreasing behavior on one hand and not the other.