Nonreductive physicalists

Kim s exclusion/supervenience argument poses central problems for any nonreductive physicalist position. This argument relies on Kim s principle of causal exclusion or the exclusion principle. Kim s most recent formulation of the principle of causal exclusion holds the following ... 

If we hold on to this principle and we are nonreductive physicalists who hold that mental properties are distinct from and irreducible to physical properties, then we might end up with the unappealing consequence that mental properties are causally impotent. 

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