ABSTRACT
Paolo Bozzi offers by way of analogy the fact that the laws of logic can be investigated independently of whatever mental processes underlie our reasoning events, as Frege and others have argued in their criticism of psychologism about logic. Bozzi’s non-reductionism must be quite different from the one stemming from Davidson’s much-debated anomalous monism. Bozzi explicitly acknowledges that a substance dualism such as the one defended by Eccles might be appealed to in order to ground the autonomous study of perception, but at the same time considers the ontological commitments of such a view as too high a price to pay. Bozzi envisages other complicated ways in which the train of physical events ultimately leading to a percept of a certain kind could in principle vary while the percept remains of the same kind.
