Introduction to Philosophy: Overhead

Introduction to Philosophy	Notes	*This is not a substitute for coming to class - or for reading* the material.**	Richard Lee
Philosophy 2003	Notes	Copyright © 2006, Richard Lee	Autumn 2006

Four Reasons for Thinking there can be
a Reduction of the Mental to the Physical
Churchland (P 255bf)

1. "purely physical origins and ostensibly physical constitution of each individual human."
2. "The origins of each type of animal also appear exhaustively physical in nature."
3. "the neural dependence of all known mental phenomena."
4. "the growing success of the neurosciences in unraveling the nervous system of many creatures and in explaining their behavioral capacities and deficits in terms of the structures discovered."

Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 2 April 2003

1.	"purely physical origins and ostensibly physical constitution of each individual human."
2.	"The origins of each type of animal also appear exhaustively physical in nature."
3.	"the neural dependence of all known mental phenomena."
4.	"the growing success of the neurosciences in unraveling the nervous system of many creatures and in explaining their behavioral capacities and deficits in terms of the structures discovered."