TY  - UNPB
ID  - cogprints389
UR  - http://cogprints.org/389/
A1  - Post, John F.
TI  - Breakwater: The New Wave, Supervenience and Individualism
Y1  - 1999///
N2  - New-wave psychoneural reduction, a la Bickle and Churchland, conflicts with the way certain adaptation properties are individuated according to evolutionary biology. Such properties cannot be reduced to physical properties of the token items that have the adaptation properties. The New Wave may entail a form of individualism inconsistent with evolutionary biology. All of this causes serious trouble as well for Jaegwon Kim's thesis of the Causal Individuation of Kinds, his Weak Supervenience thesis, Alexander's Dictum, his synchronicity thesis that all psychological kinds supervene on the contemporaneous physical states of the organism, Correlation Thesis, and indeed his Restricted Correlation Thesis. All these theses are strongly individualist, in the sense of entailing that ALL a thing's properties are determined by its own physical properties and relations, contrary to many properties in biology and psychology.
AV  - public
KW  - Bickle
KW  -  Churchland
KW  -  Kim
KW  -  Brandon
KW  -  individualism
KW  -  individuation
KW  -  supervenience
KW  -  global supervenience
KW  -  weak supervenience
KW  -  reduction
KW  -  psychoneural reduction
KW  -  physicalism
KW  -  materialism
KW  -  property
KW  -  dualism
KW  -  property dualism
KW  -  kinds
KW  -  natural kinds
KW  -  adaptation
KW  -  adaptation kind
KW  -  correlation thesis
KW  -  Alexander's dictum
KW  -  causal individuation of kinds
KW  -  downward causation
KW  -  nonreductive physicalism
KW  -  nonreductive materialism
KW  -  function
KW  -  teleofunction
KW  -  proper function
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