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    The salvageable part of McDowell's argument for mental an... — Carmelics
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    The salvageable part of McDowell's argument for mental anomalism ultimately reduces to Kim's argument

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    • 1.One can hold that rationality is constitutive, normative, and asymmetrical to the physical without accepting McDowell's distinctive picture of rationality as uncodifiable
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    • 2.Kim's strategy captures the key asymmetry point without requiring uncodifiability
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    • 3.The asymmetry point has no essential connection to McDowell's stronger views about rationality
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    • 1.McDowell's uncodifiability thesis is not merely a stronger claim about rationality but a distinct explanatory ground for anomalism rooted in Aristotelian phronesis.
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    • 2.Kim's argument derives anomalism from the irreducibility of intentional content, while McDowell derives it from the nature of rational responsiveness as such.
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    • 3.These two derivations generate different predictions about which mental states are anomalous, making them non-equivalent and non-reducible to one another.
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    • 1.The normative asymmetry McDowell identifies between mental and physical discourse is constitutively tied to the space of reasons, not merely to supervenience failures Kim exploits.
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    • 2.Stripping McDowell's argument of uncodifiability removes precisely the feature that explains why rational norms cannot be captured by any finite physical taxonomy.
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    If, however, the emphasis here falls on constitutive principles in particular—as surely it must—then two other problems arise. First, McDowell’s reasoning doesn’t tell us what exactly it is about such principles that makes them resistant to reduction, since, as we’ve just seen, that reasoning has failed to distinguish them from empirical concepts in the physical sciences. And second, as noted in 4.2, Davidson holds that there are constitutive a priori principles underlying the physical science
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