Now that you have successfully read and analyzed the arguments surrounding the mind/body problem,  you are now ready to bring everything you have learned together in a short essay. The purpose of the Week 6 Essay Assignment is to give you an opportunity to demonstrate your analytical abilities using the knowledge you have gained over the last four weeks:. For this essay, you don’t need to conduct any “research” in the library or on the Internet . Everything you need to know to complete this essay is already in this course.

Technical requirements of the Mind-Body Essay Assignment:

· 4-5 pages 1000-1250 words  (more is ok, less is not)

· Submit a Microsoft .docx (not .pages or .pdf)

· Double Spaced, 12pt Times New Roman font, 1” right and left margins

The purpose of the Mind-Body Essay Assignment: 

· To give you experience closely analyzing a philosophical problem that we have been studying

· To give you experience synthesizing the ideas and arguments we have been studying into a cohesive argument

· To demonstrate that you can accurately summarize, describe or paraphrase the ideas and arguments we have been studying

In your essay, address the following philosophical question(s) analytically: 

Is the human mind only physical?