Davidson on the identity theory

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 (March):81-90 (1977)
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I discuss donald davidson's argument for the psycho-Physical identity theory and contend that it fails: it relies on an implausible account of mental and physical events. Davidson proposes a linguistic test for determining whether a given event is mental or physical. I argue that the assumptions that are necessary for employing such a criterion of the mental are either false or presuppose the truth of the identity theory

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Bernard Katz
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Mental Events.Donald Davidson - 1970 - In L. Foster & J. W. Swanson (eds.), Experience and Theory. Humanities Press.
Materialism and the criteria of the mental.Jaegwon Kim - 1971 - Synthese 22 (3-4):323-345.

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