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Thanks for laying this out, David. I'm in the Option 3 camp, too (see my "Against Physicalism"), but more radically. For example, Davidsonian anomalous monism doesn't go far enough: like many others he thinks that token identities are significantly weaker than type identities, but they're not.

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Sorry I wasn’t following this thread. But I can send the pdf. No disagreement with what you say, Steven B. Kurtz, but that’s a far cry from any identification of a mental phenomenon with some physical particular.

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Where can i find "Against Physicalism"?

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It's in Hornsby and Fricker's Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy and in my Shifting Ground. If you email me (naomi@umn.edu) I can send you (or anyone else) a pdf.

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Oh yes, please! dsmith@une.edu

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Please send a .pdf to me as well. kurtzs@ncf.ca

I'm stuck in physicalism. According to science, there are no calorie free thoughts, feelings, memories, perceptions, actions... even awareness.

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There is nothing incompatible with physicalism in this position

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Depends on what’s understood by physicalism. If it’s that there’s nothing but physical stuff, that’s fine; if it’s that all mental particulars are physical particulars, then no: that’s demonstrably false. That’s Davidsonian anomalous monism, & it doesn’t work.

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Ah, here we come apart. I find Davidson’s position immensely appealing

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