论生物自然主义对因果排斥性问题的消解

On Searle's Biological Naturalist Solution to the Causal Exclusion Problem

在当代物理主义背景之下,作为具有时代特征的心理因果性问题——因果排斥性问题成为当前流行的各类非还原物理主义理论必须面对的重要挑战。约翰.塞尔提出的生物自然主义为解决因果排斥性问题提供了出路:他反对传统的观念二元论,避免二元论同物理主义对心-物概念的绝对区分,在坚持对心理状态的自然化解释的前提下,对非还原物理主义所容纳的五个基本原则进行了重新阐释,从而消解了二元论同物理主义矛盾下蕴含的因果排斥性问题。

The causal exclusion problem,the problem of mental causation developed in the contemporary physicalist context,has become a challenge to various forms of currently popular nonreductive physicalism.John Searle developed a theory of biological naturalism as a solution to the causal exclusion problem.He argued against the traditional conceptual dualism and rejected the metaphysical distinctions between the concept of the mental and the concept of the physical drawn by both dualism and physicalism.On the basis of his naturalized account of mental states,he reinterpreted the five fundamental principles involved in various nonreductive physicalist theories,and accordingly,to dissolve the causal exclusion problem implied in the contradiction between dualism and physicalism.