Single Idea 2597

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism]

Full Idea

I argue that (contrary to the doctrine called "anomalous monism") there is no good reason to doubt that there are intentional causal laws.

Gist of Idea

Contrary to the 'anomalous monist' view, there may well be intentional causal laws

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (Making Mind Matter More [1989], p.151)

Book Reference

'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.151


A Reaction

I certainly can't see a good argument, in Davidson or anywhere else, to demonstrate their impossibility. Give the complexity of the brain, they would be like the 'laws' for weather or geology.