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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 Ref
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.
| 17766 | Physicalism correlates brain and mind, explains causation by thought, and makes nature continuous [Bayne] |
| 17767 | The alternative to a language of thought is map-like or diagram-like thought [Bayne] |
| 17768 | Perception reveals what animals think, but humans can disengage thought from perception [Bayne] |
| 17769 | Some people centre space on themselves; others centre space on the earth [Bayne] |
| 17771 | How we evaluate evidence depends on our background beliefs [Bayne] |
| 17770 | Clifford's dictum seems to block our beliefs in morality, politics and philosophy [Bayne] |