monism, anomalous - The view put forward by Donald Davidson that all mental events are identical to physical events, and that the only laws that govern the relations between events are physical, not psychological, laws. See monism, supervenience, token identity thesis, physicalism.

Pete Mandik

References

[Anomalous Monism Biblio]

Davidson, D. (1970). Mental events. In (L. Foster & J. Swanson, eds) Experience and Theory. Humanities Press. Reprinted in Davidson (1980) Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [bookstore]

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