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Objectivism and Interactionism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Joseph Margolis
Joseph Margolis*
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University of Western Ontario
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Abstract

The views of linguistic analysts and objectivists are explored with regard to the question of interactionism. It is argued that the admission of a logical difference between explanation by cause and explanation by motive cannot disqualify causal explanations of human action, cannot be construed as challenging the competence of science, and cannot count against interactionism. It is also argued that objectivist programs for eliminating mentalistic concepts either implicitly admit interactionism or cannot distinguish relevantly between interactionism and parallelism.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1966, pp. 118 - 123
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Copyright © 1966 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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