View associated especially with the American philosopher Donald Davidson (1920-2003), saying that mental events are identical with certain physical events (hence the monism), but that there are no laws which are purely mental, or which connect mental events with physical ones (hence the ‘anomalous’; that there are no strict deterministic laws for predicting or explaining mental events is called the ‘anomalism of the mental’).
This is because whether two events are connected by a law depends on how they are described. Two mental events will also be two physical events, and described in physical terms may be connected by a law; but if one or both are described in mental terms (for example, as a decision rather than as a neurone-firing), no law will connect them.
This is because, though any mental event is identical with some physical event, there is no reason to think that all mental events of a certain kind (for example, all decisions) are also physical events of one and the same kind (for example, a certain kind of neurone-firing).
Davidson’s view is a token identity theory of mind and body.
Source:
D Davidson, ‘Mental Events’, Experience and Theory, L Foster and J W Swanson, eds (1970); reprinted in D Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events (1980)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Anomalous Monism
- 2.2 The 'Paradox' of Mental Causation: Solutions from Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism
- 2.3 Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties
- 2.4 Locke’s Ideas of Mind and Body (Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy)
- 2.5 A Problem for Free Will
- 2.6 Davidson and Spinoza: Mind, Matter and Morality (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
- 2.7 #Monism - Adult Men's Hashtag Flexfit Baseball Hat Cap, Silver, Large/X-Large
- 2.8 got Monism? - Adult Men's Flexfit Baseball Hat Cap, Khaki, Large/X-Large
- 2.9 got Anomalousness? - Adult Men's Flexfit Baseball Hat Cap, White, Small/Medium
- 2.10 #Anomalousness - Adult Men's Hashtag Flexfit Baseball Hat Cap, Black, Small/Medium
Videos
The 'Paradox' of Mental Causation: Solutions from Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism
- Medlow, Sharon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 152 Pages - 10/09/2008 (Publication Date) - VDM Verlag (Publisher)
Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- English (Publication Language)
- 306 Pages - 07/20/2018 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Locke’s Ideas of Mind and Body (Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy)
- Hardcover Book
- Kim, Han-Kyul (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 180 Pages - 07/02/2019 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
A Problem for Free Will
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Deery, Steve (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 34 Pages - 05/21/2013 (Publication Date)
Davidson and Spinoza: Mind, Matter and Morality (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Burg, Floris van der (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 108 Pages - 03/02/2017 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
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