Vallicella on the Ontology of the Mental

Posted on October 4, 2009
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Vallicella on the ontology of the mental. I’ve been more sympathetic to the property-dualist point of view that see there are proto-mental properties in the physical that emerge into the mental when in the proper composition and structure. However there’s a lot to think about in Vallicella’s comments. It’s not quite Davidson and not quite dualism and perhaps somewhat similar to Peirce. The difference is the nature of the mental.

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1. What is the Subconscious?
2. Davidson and Mental Objects
3. Mind and Matter: the three non-reductionist alternatives
4. Physics, Ontology and the Burden of Proof
5. Davidson: What Is Present to the Mind
6. Schelling, Heidegger, Freedom

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