 Non-reductionist philosophers hold firmly to two essential convictions with regard to mind – body relations: 1 ) Physicalism is true and mental states must be physical states, but 2 ) All reductionist proposals are unsatisfactory: mental states cannot be reduced to behavior, brain states or functional states. Hence, the question arises whether there can still be a non-reductive physicalism. Donald Davidson's anomalous monism is an attempt to formulate such a physicalism.
