This refreshing exercise in intellectual honesty from the pen of Bill Lycan is well worth reading. No, Lycan has not abandoned materialism. But he now admits that there are no compelling arguments for it. Perhaps later I will quote and discuss parts of Lycan's paper. Many thanks to Bob Koepp for bringing it to my attention.
Related Posts (on one page):
- Lycan, Dennett, and Spookstuff
- Giving Dualism Its Due

went and read the Lycan paper. Wonderful and wonderfully written.
Thanks for the link
peter
Articles like these remind me of my shaky background knowledge...
There is a lot I could recommend, but for now, and for one who would like to understand what Lycan is talking about, I will mention two anthologies which contain many of the key papers of the last 50 years or so. One is The Mind/Brain Identity Theory, ed. C.V. Borst and the other is Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem, ed. D. M. Rosenthal.