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    Token physicalism does not provide a necessary condition ... — Carmelics
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    Token physicalism does not provide a necessary condition for physicalism.

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    • 1.Physicalism requires that all facts supervene on physical facts, a condition that token identity cannot capture for multiply realizable or functional entities.
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    • 2.As Jaegwon Kim argues in 'Mind in a Physical World', token identity leaves open whether mental or social properties are genuinely grounded in physics or merely correlated with it.
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    • 3.A necessary condition for physicalism must rule out property dualism, which token physicalism explicitly permits by allowing non-physical property types over physical tokens.
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    • 1.Frank Jackson's knowledge argument and David Chalmers' conceivability arguments show that token physicalism is consistent with qualia being non-physical properties, undermining any claim it is necessary for physicalism.
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    • 2.If token physicalism were a necessary condition, then a world with physical tokens bearing irreducibly non-physical phenomenal properties would count as physicalist, which contradicts the standard supervenience-based formulations of Hellman and Thompson.
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    • 1.Consider a social or legal object such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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    • 2.According to token physicalism, if physicalism is true, there must be some physical object or particular that the court is identical with.
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    • 3.Intuitively, there is no physical object that the court is identical with.
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    Not only does (3) not provide a sufficient condition for physicalism, it does not provide a necessary condition either. Consider a social or legal object such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. According to (3), if physicalism is true, there must be some physical object or particular for the court to be identical with. But intuitively, there is no such physical object. Nevertheless, physicalism might still be true. If so, token physicalism is not necessary for physica
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