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Of Minds and Molecules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Francis V. Raab
Francis V. Raab*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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Abstract

“Of Minds and Molecules” attempts to show the difficulties in mental-state brain-state monism. By exploring the differences in meaning between mental-state sentences and brain-state sentences, and by analysing the implications of the theory of the molecular composition of matter, a kind of dualism is arrived at that no scientist should feel uncomfortable with. It is a dualism without mental substance but it does not deprive mental states of their uniqueness. Arguments are given for the propriety of asserting causal connections and dependency relations between mental states and molecular states of the brain.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1965 , pp. 57 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1965

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