Christopher Heath
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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Yeah.
You're right, there's no psychophysical bridge laws that we're gonna be able to be able to reduce it in the same way we to be able to talk about it in a nomological way.
They're just fundamentally different sort of levels of description.
Yeah, nomal logical is just gonna be law-like.
It might even be worth if we're gonna start with I totally understand why you would want to start with mental events.
It feels like the argument that goes on in the thing that the sort of specific thing he's focused on in mental events is like a little bit of a smaller part of his other actions, reasons, and causes.
Like there's you can see where the inspiration was, but I I think it makes sense to to start with mental events.
And we could just talk about the three principles that he lays out just to like
Like
set the landscape of why someone might be think there's a problem to solve at all, the principles that he gives in the beginning of the paper.
One of the ways that I sort of tried to characterize it in my head is if you could just to like set the stage, because it is, he even points out that it the common sense notion is that reasons are causes, that it's perfectly normal to say like the reason I got up to get the cup of coffee is because I wouldn't wanted caffeine and that could be a cause.
And but philosophy, at least where we were in the landscape then, had through the influence of Wittgenstein, Anscombe, and others he responds to.
Yeah, they kind of the consensus was that causes and reasons were not the same type of thing.
And so you might think of it like this: if you do a perfectly normal thing, you get up, you get a cup of coffee, and someone asks you, you know, why did you do that?
And you go, Well, I was, I wanted some caffeine.
What are you exactly saying there?
Are you saying there's this non-spacio-temporal thought that moved matter around in your brain?
And it there's a physical connection there?
Or are you just rationalizing your behavior?
You're placing your behavior in a sort of logical space of being able to
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