Donald Davidson's theory that mental events are identical to physical events (monism) but that mental descriptions cannot be subsumed under physical laws (anomalism) — token identity without type identity.
Provides a way of being a physicalist about mental events while denying psychophysical laws — accommodating the causal efficacy of mental events without reducing mental descriptions to physical ones.
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