Introduction to Philosophy: Overhead

Four Reasons for Thinking there can be
a Reduction of the Mental to the Physical
Churchland (IP3 290bf)

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: 29 November 2004

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."