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Externalism and identity

Dalia Drai

pp. 463-475

Abstrakt

The main aim of this paper is to show that there is one version of supervenience of the mental on the physical which is entailed by token-token identity (I call this version change-supervenience); and to establish that of the other better known versions of supervenience in the literature (which I call difference-supervenience), none are so entailed. One consequence of this is that Burge's thought experiments while successful in refutingdifference-supervenience cannot in themselves refute identity thesis. However, the introduction of change supervenience leads me to devise an analogous thought experiment against change-supervenience, thus refuting identity thesis as well.

Publication details

Published in:

(2003) Synthese 134 (3).

Seiten: 463-475

DOI: 10.1023/A:1022915720037

Referenz:

Drai Dalia (2003) „Externalism and identity“. Synthese 134 (3), 463–475.