Las disposiciones y el problema mente-cuerpo
Dispositions and the mind-body problem
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conceptos disposicionales, propiedades mentales, lenguaje ordinario, propiedades disposicionales, psicología popular. (es)Descargas
My purpose in this paper is to present a proposed solution to the problem of specifying what kind of relationship there is between the mental qualities and the physical constitution of an individual. This proposed solution is developed in three steps. First, I elaborate a schematic classification of the different concepts that we use in ordinary language to attribute mental properties, after which I argue that a considerable number of these concepts are dispositional concepts. Second, I present some objections against the mental causation thesis in order to show certain advantages that my own position offers in comparison with said thesis. Finally, I explain how mental properties (understood as dispositional properties) are related to physical events developed within the neurophysiological economy of a subject.