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Detailed Contents
CHAPTER: 1
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| 3 | The Mind/Brain Identity Theory |
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| 3.1 | A brief historical background | 71 |
| 3.2 | What the identity theory does and does not claim | 73 |
| 3.3 | Avoiding initial objections to the identity theory | 74 |
| 3.4 | The type-type identity theory | 76 |
| 3.5 | The type-type identity theory and reductionism | 77 |
| 3.6 | The token-token identity theory and the multiple realizability thesis | 79 |
| 3.7 | Strengths of the identity theory | 82 |
| 3.8 | Problems for the identity theory 3.8.1 The mental and the spatial 3.8.2 The symmetry of identity statements 3.8.3 Qualia, privileged access and the irreducibility of the mental 3.8.4 Intentional mental states 3.8.5 Rationality and normativity 3.8.6 Token-token identity and the prospect of reduction 3.8.7 Token-token identity and the impossibility of reduction 3.8.8 Kripke’s argument against the identity theory |
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| 3.9 | EliminatiVe materialism | 100 |
| Questions to think about | 103 | |
| Suggestions for further reading | 103 | |
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