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Professor Malcolm on “Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Ernest Sosa
Affiliation:
Brown University

Abstract

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Type
Notes—Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1965

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References

1 Scientific Materialism and the Identity Theory,” Dialogue, Vol. III, No. 2 (1964), pp. 115125Google Scholar.

2 For an excellent discussion of the intentionality of explanation see Israel Scheffler's, The Anatomy of Inquiry (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963), pp. 5760Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., p. 124. Malcolm here refers to J. J. C. Smart, one of the most well known recent advocates of both scientific materialism and the identity theory. See his Philosophy and Scientific Realism (N.Y.: The Humanities Press, 1963)Google Scholar.

4 This throws the burden of support for the materialist's view of the world onto other ground, ground which Malcolm also tries to blast away. Of course it has not been the purpose of this brief note to absorb the shock of those blasts.