What is the Type Identity Theory of Physicalism?

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01/04/2008

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Table of Contents What is the Type Identity Theory of Physicalism?  Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. This principle: A materialist principle
  3. The lack of appeal in the argument
  4. Identifying the mental states with physical states
  5. Flaws in Putnam's theory
  6. Conclusion
  7. Bibliography

Abstract

The type identity theory of physicalism is the idea, as outlined by David Lewis (Journal of Philosophy, 63, pp 17-25), that "every experience is identical with some physical state." Experiences and states in this sense are to be taken as universals, and not as particulars, which is where the type identity theory differs from the token identity theory.
In this essay I will look at the type identity theory as outlined by Lewis, and also the problem of whether this theory can accommodate the idea that mental states are variably realisable in animals of different physical natures. This problem is talked about in the article "The Nature of Mental States" by Hilary Putnam (1979).

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