Single Idea 3374

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

Full Idea

Token physicalism (as opposed to type physicalism) is a weak doctrine which simply says that any event or occurrence with a mental property has some physical property or other. It is not committed to reductionism.

Gist of Idea

Token physicalism isn't reductive; it just says all mental events have some physical properties

Source

Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p. 61)

Book Reference

Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.61


A Reaction

Sounds nice, but it seems incoherent to me. How can something have a physical property if it isn't physical? Try 'it isn't coloured, but has colour properties', or 'not a square, but with square properties'. 'Not divine, but divine properties' maybe.