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'The Problem of the Soul', 'Purple Haze' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 4: Conception'
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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People largely came to believe in dualism because it made human agents free [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 4. Behaviourism Critique
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Behaviourism notoriously has nothing to say about mental causation [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism
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Cars and bodies obey principles of causation, without us knowing any 'strict laws' about them [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
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Physicalism doesn't deny that the essence of an experience is more than its neural realiser [Flanagan]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
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Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]
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Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]
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Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]
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