Uncodifiability of rationality is a red herring in McDowe... — Carmelics

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Uncodifiability of rationality is a red herring in McDowell's argument for mental anomalism

Consciousness & Mind Philosophy of Language

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1.The salvageable core of McDowell's argument reduces to Kim's argument
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2.Kim's argument does not rely on rationality being uncodifiable
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3.The asymmetry between mental and physical explanation is separable from the concept of rationality as uncodifiable
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1.McDowell's constitutive ideal of rationality is not merely a heuristic but a transcendental condition on mental content individuation.
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2.Without the uncodifiability thesis, no principled barrier exists to treating rational norms as reducible to computational regularities.
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3.Kim's argument lacks the Kantian resources McDowell deploys to explain why rational norms resist physical law-formulation in principle, not merely in practice.
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