Naturalized Phenomenalism and the Talk of Impressions (original) (raw)

In this paper I intend to show that Russell’s called neutral monism in the philosophy of mind isn’t, as presented in The Analysis of Mind (1921), a metaphysical reductionism that establish sense-data as a kind of indefinite entities that are the basis of mental and physical world. On the contrary, sense-data are established as a necessary link between physical and mental discourse because of the lack of a scientific link between these two discourses, but scientific discourse is presupposed to be the fundamental discourse in a philosophy of mind. It is just because of the limitations of scientific theories that philosophical analysis must intervene and establish sense-data as the link between what is called a physical fact and what is called mental fact.