ABSTRACT
This contribution explores the application of abductive reasoning in the philosophy of mind. It emphasizes the importance of explanatory features and abductive virtues, highlighting the need to balance virtues such as accuracy and simplicity in developing robust explanations. For this purpose, it identifies a list of common desiderata underlying many accounts in the philosophy of mind. While existing discussions of desiderata in the philosophy of mind, such as multiple realizability, mental causation, and qualia, often prioritize individual explanatory features and abductive virtues, this work argues for a more holistic approach that also considers the interplay among these features and virtues.
