Malcolm and Smart on brain-mind identity

Philosophy 42 (April):128-136 (1967)
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In ‘Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory’ Malcolm argues that Smart's brain-mind identity theory is not even false, but is unintelligible. I want to comment on his arguments

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Mind-brain analogies.Alan R. White - 1972 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (4):457-472.

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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.Paul Arthur Schilpp - 1951 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2 (5):61-68.
Materialism.J. J. C. Smart - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (October):651-62.

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