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2/08/2017 10:14 pm  #21


Re: Immateriality of the Mind question

What precisely would lead to epiphenomenalism? I think the AfR would more or less be effective (if it is sound) against all naturalist positions on the mind (assuming naturalists can't accept mental causation; and, as Reppert put it, it would be a strange kind of naturalism that could), not just epiphenomenalism*. Nor do I think epiphenomenalism would be a good response to the argument for the naturalist, because it would still sever the causes from the process of reasoning. 

*I'm assuming epiphenomenalism is a form of naturalism, but it could be considered dualism (though one that still is vulernable to the AfR).

 

2/24/2017 3:25 pm  #22


Re: Immateriality of the Mind question

I managed to retrieve my copy of Reppert's excellent work. I agree with him that the centre of the AfR is whether naturalism precludes mental causation (and mental causation in which the ground-consequent relationship is the (or at least an) actual course of a rational inference). I will write more on this soon.

 

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