Donald Davidson's foundational paper arguing for anomalous monism — mental events are identical to physical events but mental descriptions cannot be systematically reduced to physical descriptions.
Three principles lead to anomalous monism: the causal interaction of mental and physical; the nomological character of causality; the anomalism of the mental. Token identity without type identity follows.
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