Malcolm and Smart on brain-mind identity

Philosophy 42 (April):128-136 (1967)
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In ‘Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory’ Malcolm argues that Smart's brain-mind identity theory is not even false, but is unintelligible. I want to comment on his arguments

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Materialism.J. J. C. Smart - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (October):651-62.

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