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    It is not the case that Cartesian dualism and other forms of dualism are ruled out.

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    • 1.Causally interacting mental events must be token-identical with physical events.
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    • 2.Dualism entails that mental events are not token-identical with physical events.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Causal closure of the physical entails that any cause of a physical event must itself be physical or supervene on the physical.
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    • 2.Cartesian dualism posits mental substances that are wholly non-physical and thus cannot causally interact with physical events without violating causal closure.
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    • 3.Davidson's principle of the nomological character of causality requires causal relations to be backed by strict physical laws, which dualist mental substances cannot satisfy.
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    • 1.Jaegwon Kim's supervenience argument demonstrates that dualist mental properties cannot have genuine downward causal efficacy without overdetermining physical effects.
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    • 2.Systematic causal overdetermination of physical events by non-physical mental substances is empirically untenable and violates parsimony constraints on metaphysical theorizing.
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