Who Should Fear Type Epiphenomenalism?

• Authors: Krzysztof Posłajko

Title variants

PL

Kto powinien bać się epifenomenalizmu typów?

EN

Who Should Fear Type Epiphenomenalism?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The causal exclusion argument purports to show that various forms of nonreductive physicalism in philosophy of mind (including especially Davidson’s anomalous monism) inevitably lead to type epiphenomenalism, i.e. the view that mental properties are causally ineffective. In a recent paper, Mariusz Grygianiec claimed that a proponent of Davidson’s theory, as a nominalist, should be unmoved by considerations of that sort. The aim of this paper is to analyze this claim. It turns out that, given certain assumptions, both nominalist’s and realist’s position can be threatened by this charge, but the nominalist is better equipped to resist it.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 79-90

Dates

published

2013-12-01

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Posłajko