Vertical Versus Horizontal: What is really at issue in the exclusion problem?

Synthese (2):1-16 (2019)
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Abstract

I outline two ways of reading what is at issue in the exclusion problem faced by non-reductive physicalism, the “vertical” versus “horizontal”, and argue that the vertical reading is to be preferred to the horizontal. I discuss the implications: that those who have pursued solutions to the horizontal reading of the problem have taken a wrong turn.

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John Donaldson
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