Full Idea
Should the necessary passage from the physical account of the world to the psychological one that physicalists are committed to, be placed in the a posteriori or the a priori basket?
Gist of Idea
Is the dependence of the psychological on the physical a priori or a posteriori?
Source
Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.3)
Book Reference
Jackson,Frank: 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' [OUP 2000], p.68
A Reaction
That is, is 'the physical entails the mental' empirical or a priori? See Idea 3989. If we can at least dream of substance dualism, it is hard to see how it could be fully a priori. I think I prefer to see it as an inductive explanation.
Related Idea
Idea 3989 I am a reductionist about mind because I am an a priori reductionist about everything [Lewis]