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'Necessary Existents', 'Letters to William Molyneux' and 'Mental Events'
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 1. Reductionism critique
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Reduction is impossible because mind is holistic and brain isn't [Davidson, by Maslin]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism
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Anomalous monism says nothing at all about the relationship between mental and physical [Davidson, by Kim]
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Mind is outside science, because it is humanistic and partly normative [Davidson, by Lycan]
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Anomalous monism says causes are events, so the mental and physical are identical, without identical properties [Davidson, by Crane]
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If rule-following and reason are 'anomalies', does that make reductionism impossible? [Davidson, by Kim]
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Davidson claims that mental must be physical, to make mental causation possible [Davidson, by Kim]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism
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If mental causation is lawless, it is only possible if mental events have physical properties [Davidson, by Kim]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
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Supervenience of the mental means physical changes mental, and mental changes physical [Davidson]
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