@article{ART001716273},
author={Tohyung Paik},
title={Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism},
journal={Philosophical Investigation},
issn={1598-7213},
year={2012},
volume={32},
pages={197-226},
doi={10.33156/philos.2012.32..007}
TY - JOUR
AU - Tohyung Paik
TI - Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism
JO - Philosophical Investigation
PY - 2012
VL - 32
IS - null
PB - Institute of philosophy in Chung-Ang Univ.
SP - 197
EP - 226
SN - 1598-7213
AB - Nonreductive physicalism has been accepted as a main stream on the mind-body problem for a while. In recent philosophy of mind, however, the problem of mental causation, which is never a new problem, is raised anew as a hot issue, since a serious ontological problem of nonreductive physicalism is brought up. According to it, in nonreductive physicalism as property dualism, the mental are only epiphenomena, because it cannot have any causal power. So the mental have no ontologically meaningful status, but are just dependent on the physical. If this criticism is right, the well-known advantage of nonreductive physicalism should be fictitious, and the discussions on the mind-body problem will come back to the start point. That is our situation.
I think that the problem of mental causation relates deeply with the problem of properties as universals. And my point is that Davidsonian token-event identity theory as a form of psychophysical nominalism can survive and be a promising option for the mind-body problem. In this article, I will propose Four-Dimensional Particularism as psychophysical nominalism applying Davidsonian token-event identity theory and Leibnizian monads.
KW - psychophysical nominalism;Four-Dimensional Particularism;Donald Davidson;impredicability;mental causation
DO - 10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
ER -
Tohyung Paik. (2012). Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism. Philosophical Investigation, 32, 197-226.
Tohyung Paik. 2012, "Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism", Philosophical Investigation, vol.32, pp.197-226. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
Tohyung Paik "Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism" Philosophical Investigation 32 pp.197-226 (2012) : 197.
Tohyung Paik. Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism. 2012; 32 197-226. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
Tohyung Paik. "Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism" Philosophical Investigation 32(2012) : 197-226.doi: 10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
Tohyung Paik. Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism. Philosophical Investigation, 32, 197-226. doi: 10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
Tohyung Paik. Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism. Philosophical Investigation. 2012; 32 197-226. doi: 10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
Tohyung Paik. Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism. 2012; 32 197-226. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
Tohyung Paik. "Four-Dimensional Particularism as Psychophysical Nominalism" Philosophical Investigation 32(2012) : 197-226.doi: 10.33156/philos.2012.32..007
