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Herbert Feigl, The "Mental" and the "Physical": The Essay and a Postscript (1967).

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V. Mind-Body Identity. Explications and Supporting Arguments

With due trepidation I shall now proceed to draw the conclusions from the preceding discussions, and to present the denouement of the philosophical tangles. There are many points on which I have sincere and serious doubts. There is yet a great deal of analytic work to be done on several puzzling aspects for which I can at present only sketch the sort of solution which seems to me especially plausible.

1. Review of the More Basic Meanings and Connotations of "Mental" and "Physical".
2. The Inference to Other Minds.
3. The Cognitive Roles of Acquaintance.
4. Reduction and Identification in Scientific Theories.
5. Arguments Concerning the Identification of Sentience with Neural Events.