An Empirical Case Against Central State Materialism

Philosophia Christi 14 (2):409-428 (2012)
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I argue that recent empirical investigations reveal new problems and new evidence that should compel advocates of causal functionalism (of the sort defended by David Armstrong and David Lewis) to reconsider the feasibility of their account of mind.

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