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21 - Property Dualism Objectionswhat is interactionist PD-✅✅ distinct mental properties causally effect
both mental and physical properties
what issue arises from interactionist PD- ✅✅
if mental properties have
causal powers, how do they have causal powers
✅✅
if we accept that mental properties, have causal powers, what problem
arises- problem of causal overdetermination
explain causal overdetermination- ✅✅ one physical event has a physical
cause and a mental cause
what does the diagram show- ✅✅ causal overdetermination
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how did chalmers try and reply to the objection that PD cannot explain
causal relationships (unconvincing)- this inability to explain is true of
many fundamental causal relationships
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example of another causal relationship that scientists didn’t understand for
years- gravity - we have no account of how mass bends space but we
cannot object to this claim either
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why is mental-physical causation different from a causal relationship like
gravity- it is incompatible with the rest of science
what does epiphenomenalist PD claim- ✅✅ mental properties are causally
inert, physicalists are right about causation but wrong about what exists
what is epiphenomenalist PD compatible with- ✅✅ the principle of causal
closure
first issue that epiphenomenalist PD faces- ✅✅ doesn’t fit with the
phenomenology of our mental life
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