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Ideas of DH Mellor / T Crane, by Text

[British, fl. 1990, Supervisor and student at Cambridge University.]

1990 There is no question of physicalism
p.15 Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Papineau]
p.194 p.194 Causation depends on intrinsic properties
p.198 p.198 There are many psychophysicals laws - about the effects of sweets, colours and soft cushions
p.203 p.203 No defences of physicalism can deprive psychology of the ontological authority of other sciences