NDLI: Against Disanalogy-Style Responses to the Exclusion Problem

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Author	Morris, Kevin
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This paper focuses on an influential line of response to the exclusion problem for nonreductive physicalism, one defended with the most subtlety by Karen Bennett. According to this line of thought, a successful nonreductive response to the exclusion problem, a response that allows one to maintain each of the core components of nonreductive physicalism, may consist in showing that the manner in which the effects of mental causes also have distinct and sufficient physical causes is disanalogous to other types of cases in which an effect may have distinct sufficient causes. After laying out the formulation of the exclusion problem that Bennett endorses, along with her response to the problem, I offer an initial critique of this response insofar as it is couched in terms of her preferred formulation. I then present a general critique of disanalogy-style responses to the exclusion problem. I argue that extant implementations of this strategy are at best underdeveloped, and suggest that lack of clarity in the use of “overdetermination” may function to mask the shortcomings of this strategy. While others have questioned the details of such responses, the worries that I raise concern the very logic of the exclusion problem and how such responses fit into this logic.
Starting Page	435
Ending Page	453
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00483893
Journal	Philosophia
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15749274
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-02-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Exclusion problem Mental causation Nonreductive physicalism Philosophy Epistemology Ethics Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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