PHI 3398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anomalous Monism, Eliminative Materialism, Behaviorism
4 Dec 2013
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Anomalous monism tries to keep them: theoretical elements to start with. Is at the source of a lot of problems. Different kinds of events, but all belong to the same system". Stating the problem in terms of events: We have to look at the concept of law. Where there is causality, there must be laws events causally related must fall under laws. According to the principle, there must be laws between physical and mental events (intuition 2) Other theories presuppose that such laws exist. Davidson: there are no such laws: davidson"s argument against psychophysical laws. Important: davidson"s theory is only about propositional attitudes. Let"s go through the argument point by point. It"s the issue of the nature of the mental". Principles of rationality: coherence and logical consequences. Physical events are not regulated by these norms of rationality. We describe the domain we don"t interpret it. This domain is subjected to physical laws. Psychophysical laws and the attribution of mental states.
