This theory is paired with functionalism in a 1985 article by John McDowell, which looks at Brian Loar's argument against it.
This theory is paired with functionalism in a 1985 article by John McDowell, which looks at Brian Loar's argument against it. Ted Honderich authored a paper on the "argument for" it, writing that it cannot survive the charge of epiphenomalism, while another paper asks whether "supervenience" can save this theory, and was written by Jaegwon Kim. It assumes the "Principle of the Nomological Character of Causality" and applies its formulator's "principle of charity," also central to his method of radical interpretation. It posits the creation of "token-identities" through the impossibility of type-identities. First introduced in a paper entitled "Mental Events," it claims that those mental events are identical to certain physical events but cannot be reduced to them by strict laws. FTP, name this mind-body theory formulated by Donald Davidson.
This theory is paired with functionalism in a 1985 article by John McDowell, which looks at Brian Loar's argument against it.
{anomalous monism}