Answers to the Anti-Reductionist Dilemma

Abstract

Kim's anti-reductionist dilemma shown in Analiza (01/98) represents for the antireductionist at the global level a serious problem since its first horn forces him to accept that pain and its heterogeneous disjunction are kinds, and its second horn that neither pain nor its heterogeneous disjunction are kinds. In the former case pain is reducible to its heterogeneous disjunction, which leads him to reductionism, and in the latter case neither pain nor its heterogeneous disjunction exist, which leads him to eliminativism. This article introduces three possible answers to the dilemma offered by reductionst Kim and antireductionists Block and Fodor. Kim defends eliminativism but Block and Fodor try to avoid both horns of the dilemma and defend antireductionism