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Single Idea 6986
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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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 Ref
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]
The
27 ideas
from 'From Metaphysics to Ethics'
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6979
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Serious metaphysics cares about entailment between sentences
[Jackson]
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7005
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Something can only have a place in a preferred account of things if it is entailed by the account
[Jackson]
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6977
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Egocentric or de se content seems to be irreducibly so
[Jackson]
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6975
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Possible worlds could be concrete, abstract, universals, sentences, or properties
[Jackson]
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6976
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In physicalism, the psychological depends on the physical, not the other way around
[Jackson]
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6982
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Long arithmetic calculations show the a priori can be fallible
[Jackson]
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6980
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Conceptual analysis studies whether one story is made true by another story
[Jackson]
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6983
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Intuitions about possibilities are basic to conceptual analysis
[Jackson]
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6984
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Smooth reductions preserve high-level laws in the lower level
[Jackson]
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6991
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We examine objects to determine colour; we do not introspect
[Jackson]
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6987
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We should not multiply senses of necessity beyond necessity
[Jackson]
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6986
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Is the dependence of the psychological on the physical a priori or a posteriori?
[Jackson]
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6990
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Keep distinct the essential properties of water, and application conditions for the word 'water'
[Jackson]
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6985
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Analysis is finding necessary and sufficient conditions by studying possible cases
[Jackson]
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6989
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I can understand "He has a beard", without identifying 'he', and hence the truth conditions
[Jackson]
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6988
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Mathematical sentences are a problem in a possible-worlds framework
[Jackson]
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6993
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Redness is a property, but only as a presentation to normal humans
[Jackson]
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6992
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If different states can fulfil the same role, the converse must also be possible
[Jackson]
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6995
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Successful predication supervenes on nature
[Jackson]
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6998
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Folk morality does not clearly distinguish between doing and allowing
[Jackson]
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6997
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Moral functionalism says moral terms get their meaning from their role in folk morality
[Jackson]
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7000
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Which are prior - thin concepts like right, good, ought; or thick concepts like kindness, equity etc.?
[Jackson]
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6999
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It is hard to justify the huge difference in our judgements of abortion and infanticide
[Jackson]
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6996
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Folk psychology covers input, internal role, and output
[Jackson]
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6994
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Truth supervenes on being
[Jackson]
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6978
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Baldness is just hair distribution, but the former is indeterminate, unlike the latter
[Jackson]
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14707
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Conceptual analysis is needed to establish that metaphysical reductions respect original meanings
[Jackson, by Schroeter]
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