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Single Idea 6158
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
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Full Idea
One often finds a supervenience thesis concerning the relation between mental and physical properties combined with a token identity theory concerning the relation between mental and physical particulars.
Clarification
'Token identity' asserts identity with something, but of no particular type
Gist of Idea
Supervenience of mental and physical properties often comes with token-identity of mental and physical particulars
Source
Mark Rowlands (Externalism [2003], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.21
A Reaction
This brings out the important clarifying point that supervenience is said to be between properties, not substances. The point is that supervenience will always cry out for an explanation, preferably a sensible one.
The
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from Mark Rowlands
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Moral intuition seems unevenly distributed between people
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6178
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It is common to see the value of nature in one feature, such as life, diversity, or integrity
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6156
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The 17th century reintroduced atoms as mathematical modes of Euclidean space
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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
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6157
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Tokens are dated, concrete particulars; types are their general properties or kinds
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6155
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Supervenience is a one-way relation of dependence or determination between properties
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6154
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It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack
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6152
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Minds are rational, conscious, subjective, self-knowing, free, meaningful and self-aware
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6161
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Structuralism is neo-Kantian idealism, with language playing the role of categories of understanding
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6163
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If bivalence is rejected, then excluded middle must also be rejected
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6159
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Strong idealism is the sort of mess produced by a Cartesian separation of mind and world
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6168
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The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence
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6167
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Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states
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6170
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Natural kinds are defined by their real essence, as in gold having atomic number 79
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6173
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Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds
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6174
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If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do
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