Esfeld, Michael (2021) Against levels of reality: the method of metaphysics and the argument for dualism. [Preprint]
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This paper has three objectives: (i) arguing against levels of reality by employing the Lewis-Jackson method for doing metaphysics, also known as the Canberra plan; (ii) showing how this method renders the idea of levels of reality incoherent, but nevertheless leaves the conceptual space open for dualism; (iii) sketching out a concrete proposal for a dualism of mind and matter that relies on normativity and that employs ontic structural realism.
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| Keywords: | Canberra plan, dualism, functionalism, Humeanism, myth of the given, normativity, Super-Humeanism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Michael Esfeld | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2021 00:33 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2021 00:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 19424 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | 27 July 2021 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19424 |
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