TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints392
UR  - http://cogprints.org/392/
A1  - Post, John F.
Y1  - 1995///
N2  - "Adaptation properties," as individuated according to evolutionary biology, cannot be reduced to physical properties of the token items that have the adaptation properties. This causes serious if not fatal trouble for several of Kim's crucial theses: the Causal Individuation of Kinds, Weak Supervenience, Alexander's Dictum, the synchronicity thesis (that all psychological kinds supervene on the contemporaneous physical states of the organism), the 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.
KW  - individualism
KW  -  individualist
KW  -  individuation
KW  -  supervenience
KW  -  supervene
KW  -  dependence
KW  -  determination
KW  -  determine
KW  -  nonreductive determination
KW  -  Kim
KW  -  Millikan
KW  -  reduction
KW  -  explanation
KW  -  physicalism
KW  -  identity
KW  -  global supervenience
KW  -  weak supervenience
KW  -  realization
KW  -  physical realization
KW  -  psychoneural reduction
KW  -  materialism
KW  -  property
KW  -  dualism
KW  -  property dualism
KW  -  kinds
KW  -  natural kinds
KW  -  adaptation
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
TI  - Review of Jaegwon Kim, Supervenience and Mind
SP  - 338
AV  - public
EP  - 340
ER  -

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