Davidson - anomalous monism

❌Others - There is a contradiction

Principle of Causal Interaction

interact causally
(BUT their relation
❌determined by laws)

Physical events

Mental events

Nomolical Character of Causality

Anomalism of mental

Causality -> laws (deterministic)

NO strict laws -> determining the mental

✅D - ALL are true

Events

ONLY ❌repeatable

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Describable in phy terms

Describable in mental terms

Mental verbs: express propositional attitudes

Sentences with - subject + completed by embeddrd sentences

Intentionality

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EVERY event is describable as mental (e.g. collision of two ⭐ can be picked out by rolling ✏)

BUT it doesn't matter for the theory if more events can count as ment..

usual identity theories

Correlations/ laws > connecting mental & phy events

these are event kinds

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A type of identity theory

  • ✅ALL events are physical (like materialism)
    .
  • ❌ mental phenomena can have purely phy. explanations (NO reductionism)
    .
  • ❌ psychophy.al laws
    .
  • ✅true general statements (mental=phy) -> BUT only lawlike > in their logical form
    .
  • ✅every mental event can be singled out using only phy concepts

Physical

Mental

supervene on

  • ❌phy.event=phy.event & mental.event x= mental event
    .
  • ❌mental.event x= mental event & phy.event=phy.event

Laws are - linguistic

Events can be described as cause&effect -> they instanciate a law

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❌ definitional behaviourism (mental concepts can be reduced only to mental)

Lawlike statements:

  • support counterfactual
    .
  • are supported by their instances

Connected to meaning

e.g. all emeralds are grue ->
❌lawlike
while "all emeralds are greem ✅is

Uses predicates -> we apriori know belonf together

Mental & physical predicates ❌ meant for eachother

ONLY roughly true generalisations

In physical science

About mental phenomena

❌assign prop.att. WITHOUT a theory of his beliefs

❌assign length to an obj. WITHOUT a comprehensive theory (relational term)