Estragos del fisicismo y del dualismo implícito en la filosofía analíticacaso Davidson y una alternativa

  1. Chamorro Martínez, José María
Revista:
Laguna: Revista de Filosofía

ISSN: 1132-8177

Año de publicación: 2002

Número: 10

Páginas: 27-68

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Laguna: Revista de Filosofía

Resumen

In this paper I will examine how physicalism and dualism (usually implicit) pose some difficulties to Davidson’s anomalous monism with regard to both causal efficacy of mental properties and the very possibility of a scientific theory of mind. Such problems, which cannot be solved with the concept of «supervenience» maintained by Davidson, do not seem to have solution inside a physicalistic framework. However, they do not appear in a systemic approach because, on the one hand, the concept of «emergency» replaces the concept of «supervenience» removing its ontological ambiguety; and, on the other hand, reduction is not regarded in that approach as a necessary condition for a scientific psychology.