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Mind the Adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Lawrence A. Shapiro
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By now, even the kid down the street must be familiar with the functionalist's response to type-identity physicalism. Mental kinds like pain, love, the belief that Madison sits on an isthmus, etc., are not identical to physical kinds because it's conceptually (if not empirically) possible that entities physically distinct in kind from human beings experience pain, love, beliefs that Madison sits on an isthmus, etc. Type-identity physicalism, in short, is baselessly chauvinistic in its rejection of the possibility of nonhuman minds.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 49 , March 2001 , pp. 23 - 41
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2001

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