ABSTRACT

This paper1 takes its departure from arguments to be found in U.T. Place’s “Is Consciousness a Brain Process?”2 I have had the benefit of discussing Place’s thesis in a good many universities in the United States and Australia, and I hope that the present paper answers objections to his thesis which Place has not considered and that it presents his thesis in a more nearly unobjectionable form. This paper is meant also to supplement the paper “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical,’” by H. Feigl,3 which in part argues for a similar thesis to Place’s.