Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation

David J. Chalmers, Frank Jackson

The Philosophical Review · 2001 · 690 citations · 16 references

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Is conceptual analysis required for reductive explanation? If there is no a priori entailment from microphysical truths to phenomenal truths, does reductive explanation of the phenomenal fail? We say yes (Chalmers 1996; Jackson 1994, 1998). Ned Block and Robert Stalnaker say no (Block and Stalnaker 1999).

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