Single Idea 17766

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind]

Full Idea

The motivations for physicalism about the mind are that it accounts for correlations between states of the brain and states of thought, ...that it accounts for the causal role of thoughts, ...and that it does justice to the continuity of nature.

Gist of Idea

Physicalism correlates brain and mind, explains causation by thought, and makes nature continuous

Source

Tim Bayne (Thought: a very short introduction [2013], Ch.2)

Book Reference

Bayne,Tim: 'Thought: a very short introduction' [OUP 2013], p.19


A Reaction

[summary] That is a pretty good summary of why I am a physicalist about the mind. I take all other theories to be dead footnotes in the history of thought - unless someone can produce a really good new argument. Which they can't.