In Chapters I and IV of The Analysis of Mind, R ussell provides a number of arguments for the utility, for
the purpose of characterizing the mental, of certain functional and causal patterns. Describe Russell’s argument
for the claim (appearing at the bottom of page 29 in Chapter I) that “…the things we can discover [ about our
own beliefs and desires] by introspection do not seem to differ in any fundamental way from the things we dis-
cover by introspection”. In Chapter IV, Russell introduces the idea of mnemic causation as a special form of
the relation of cause and effect. Explain this idea, and discuss Russell’s application of it in characterizing what
is distinctive to the behavioral pattern of living organisms, most strikingly in the pattern of response to stimuli
exhibited in beings of highly developed intelligence.
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