PHIL 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anomalous Monism, Mental Event, Monism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2501
• Professor: Heidi Maibom

Document Summary

Missed the last six lectures (a presentaion, a meeing, then sick x4) Says there is something anomalous about the mental all mental states are idenical to physical states (types) Starts his aricle with three diferent principles that he believes are true. They seem incompaible with each other (inconsistent triad) but he explains how they are. As they progress, they get more complex and more contenious. Mental afects physical and physical afects mental: 2. Whenever one event causes another event, there must be a strict universal law that always causes the same outcome. Causaion is always a mater of realizing the laws of nature. No causaion without there being a strict law. Needn"t be strict, but if there are excepions, the excepions can be accounted for by other laws so to simplify all this in your head, just think that they are all just strict laws. Subsued bylaw refers to this a law that states that when x happens, y happens