Saturday, December 17, 2011

Can someone explain to me what is meant by this paragraph? Philosophy?

Jaegwon Kim鈥檚 causal exclusion argument says that if all physical effects have sufficient physical causes, and no physical effects are caused twice over by distinct physical and mental causes, there cannot be any irreducible mental causes. In addition, Kim has argued that the nonreductive physicalist must give up completeness, and embrace the possibility of downward causation. This paper argues first that this extra argument relies on a principle of property individuation, which the nonreductive physicalist need not accept, and second that once we get clear on overdetermination, there is a way to reject the exclusion principle upon which the causal exclusion argument depends, but third that this should not lead to the belief that mental causation is easily accounted for in terms of counterfactual dependencies.|||they are talking abut different approaches to the mind body connection...too many undefined terms for me to figure out exactly where this is going.|||craporama. High sounding fart noise.

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