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- Laird Addis (1984). Parallelism, Interactionism, and Causation. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9:329-344.One may gather from the arguments of two of the last papers published before his death that J. L. Mackie held the following three theses concerning the mind/body problem : (1) There is a distinct realm of mental properties, so a dualism of properties at least is true and materialism false.In my reading list | Discuss this article | Edit | Categorize |My bibliography
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