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[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
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Full Idea
If one accepts the supervenience of mental on physical, this logically implies that there can only be one Cartesian soul, because such souls are physically indiscernible, and hence mentally indiscernible.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience says all souls are identical, being physically indiscernible
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p. 10)
Book Ref
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.10
A Reaction
Not very persuasive. Brains are certainly discernible, and so are parts of brains. Egos might be mentally discernible. I don't find my notion of personal identity collapsing just because I espouse property dualism.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[total mapping of thoughts onto brain events]:
5018
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Even if tightly united, mind and body are different, as God could separate them
[Descartes]
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5924
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Identical objects must have identical value
[Ross]
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16041
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Supervenience of the mental means physical changes mental, and mental changes physical
[Davidson]
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3477
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If mind-brain supervenience isn't causal, this implies epiphenomenalism
[Searle]
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3531
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Mental events can cause even though supervenient, like the solidity of a piston
[Searle]
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3476
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Mind and brain are supervenient in respect of cause and effect
[Searle]
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3478
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Upwards mental causation makes 'supervenience' irrelevant
[Searle]
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2309
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Non-Reductive Physicalism relies on supervenience
[Kim]
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2311
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Maybe strong supervenience implies reduction
[Kim]
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3362
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Supervenience says all souls are identical, being physically indiscernible
[Kim]
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3413
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Zombies and inversion suggest non-reducible supervenience
[Kim]
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3510
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Epiphenomenalism is supervenience without physicalism
[Papineau]
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3511
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Supervenience requires all mental events to have physical effects
[Papineau]
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2995
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Supervenience gives good support for mental causation
[Fodor]
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7865
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Supervenience can be replaced by identifying mind with higher-order or disjunctional properties
[Papineau]
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4080
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If mental supervenes on the physical, then every physical cause will be accompanied by a mental one
[Crane]
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2395
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Zombies imply natural but not logical supervenience
[Chalmers]
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17277
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If mind supervenes on the physical, it may also explain the physical (and not vice versa)
[Fine,K]
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6158
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Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars
[Rowlands]
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