A Linguistic Reading of Anomalous Monism
| dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Lievers, Dr. M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Westen, A.J. van | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-08T17:02:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-08 | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-08-08T17:02:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/13821 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis a linguistic reading of anomalous monism is proposed. This interpretation of Donald Davidson's theory of mind is meant to counter the charges of causal idleness made against anomalous monism by critics such as Jaegwon Kim. The interpretation proposed in this thesis holds that anomalous monism should be seen as a thesis concerning descriptions of states as mental or physical, rather than as a thesis concerning ontological domains of mental and physical events. In support of this interpretation a truth-value notion of supervenience is developed. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
| dc.format.extent | 312600 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | A Linguistic Reading of Anomalous Monism | |
| dc.type.content | Bachelor Thesis | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Anomalous Monism, Donald Davidson, Davidson, Kim, Jaegwon Kim, Mental Events, Monism, Anomalous, mind-body problem, physicalism, philosophy, philosophy of mind, cognition, mental causation, causation, causal idler, analytical, Dumett, McLaughlin, Sosa, language, supervenience, supervenient, causal, exclusion, epiphenomenalism, epiphenomena, epiphenomenon, epiphenominalist, monist, mind, body | |
| dc.subject.courseuu | Wijsbegeerte |