PHIL 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Supervenience, Mental Property, Physicalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2501
• Professor: Heidi Maibom

Document Summary

Lecture 12 next assignment due next tuesday (2 pages long) Horgan uses f (mental ex: pain) properies and g (physical ex: c ibres iring) properies. Talks about diferent types of properies to disinguish the mental vs. physical. His supervenience claim is a physicalist claim. This allows a vulcan to experience pain even if they don"t have c ibres to ire. Ex: if you have c ibres iring, you must be in pain. Not always if you are in pain, you have c ibres iring: only talking about our one world. It is possible that if you move to a diferent world, some c ibres would ire without pain: no mental diference without a physical diference. But does not let us reduce the mental to the physical: allows for muliple realizibility. Ex: g or h can both be related to f.