Linguistique de l’écrit

Revue internationale en libre accès

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113432

A dilemma for anomalous monism

Brian P McLaughlin

pp. 21-45

Résumé

Jaegwon Kim is often viewed as having proposed a dilemma for Donald Davidson: if when Davidson appealed to psychophysical supervenience in “Mental Events,” his appeal was to weak supervenience, then he failed to state how mental properties depend on physical properties; and if his appeal was instead to strong supervenience, then he was appealing to a thesis that is incompatible with anomalous monism. I examine this dilemma in detail, pointing out that it is actually a dilemma for the doctrine of anomalous monism itself. I ultimately argue that it is a false dilemma. But I then state a related dilemma that poses a serious, unresolved prima facie problem for anomalous monism.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Caminada Emanuele, Summa Michela (2015) Supervenience and the theory of experience. Metodo 3 (2).

Pages: 21-45

DOI: 10.19079/metodo.3.2.21

Citation complète:

McLaughlin Brian P, 2015, A dilemma for anomalous monism. Metodo 3 (2), Supervenience and the theory of experience, 21-45. https://doi.org/10.19079/metodo.3.2.21.