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    It is not the case that The mind-brain identity theory can be established without relying on parsimony considerations

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    • 1.Causal efficacy arguments for identity theory presuppose that mental causation requires type-identity, which epiphenomenalism and anomalous monism deny.
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    • 2.Davidson's anomalous monism shows mental events can be causally efficacious as token-physical without establishing type-identity between mental and neural kinds.
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    • 3.Therefore causal efficacy alone underdetermines identity theory relative to its competitors, making parsimony or additional premises indispensable.
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    • 1.Kripke's modal argument establishes that if pain is C-fiber firing, this is necessarily true, yet we can conceive of pain without C-fiber firing.
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    • 2.No causal efficacy argument can dissolve this conceivability gap without invoking theoretical economy to prefer identity over property dualism.
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    • 3.Therefore the identity theory cannot be established from causal premises alone without implicitly relying on parsimony to block modal objections.
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    • 1.An argument from the causal efficacy of experience is sufficient to establish the identity theory
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    • 2.The abductive parsimony step is unnecessary and possibly unsound
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