KnowraIdentity theoryLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Identity theory, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 1Related 3Compared with 8Mind–body problemCompared with: It treats mental and neural descriptions as naming the same states.PhysicalismRelated: It is a direct account of how mental phenomena can be physical.MaterialismBroader topic: It gives a direct materialist account of how mental states relate to brain states.DualismCompared with: It explains mental phenomena physically rather than treating mind as a separate substance.MonismRelated: It is one route to a monist account of mind and body.Hard problem of consciousnessCompared with: Identifying experience with brain states may appear to state a fact without explaining why it feels a certain way.Gilbert RyleCompared with: Unlike identity theorists, Ryle primarily analyzes mental concepts rather than identifying them with brain states.Eliminative materialismCompared with: Unlike elimination, identity theory typically identifies familiar mental states with neural states rather than discarding them.Property dualismCompared with: It rejects property dualism by identifying mental states with physical states.Mind–body dualismCompared with: It rejects dualism by identifying mental events with physical events.Folk psychologyCompared with: It recasts familiar mental-state explanations in terms of physical processes.George Herbert MeadRelated: It develops questions about socially formed selves and role expectations that Mead helped establish.