Showing posts with label non-reductive materialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-reductive materialism. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Against property dualism

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A redated post What if you accept irreducibility arguments that defend the claim that mental states are ineliminable and irreducible to...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

On The Necessity of Mental Causation

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This is from my reply to Keith Parsons in essay "Some Supernatural Reasons Why My Critics are Wrong" (a title that was given to my...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Physicalism, mental causation, and the AFR

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There are, of course, several versions of the AFR. If the opponent is advocating some kind of reductionism, then all the difficulties in pro...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Willard on Searle on non-reductive materialism

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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Clayton and Doctor Logic on Reduction

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Clayton: Here's a standard view for materialists to take. Arguments against materialism in mind fail because they fail to take account o...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Hasker's "How Not to Be a Reductivist"

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Can't recommend this one enough.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Hasker, sensible naturalism, and causal closure

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What would the naturalist have to accept, in order to accommodate the demands of reason at this point? At minimum, the naturalist must accep...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Reply to Arnold Guminski, with some clarifications

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AG: I describe myself as a commonsensible naturalist because I am committed, to borrow the words of William Hasker, to “a naturalism that ma...
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