Packet 5: Tossup 17

This thinker regretted his use of the term “omniscient interpreter” in a rejection of skepticism. This thinker used the example of an agent flipping a lightswitch and revealing a prowler (10[1])in a defense of the notion that rationalizations for actions are causal explanations. (10[2])This thinker identified a “third dogma of empiricism” latent (10[1])in the work of his mentor W. V. O. Quine, which he called (-5[1])scheme–content dualism. This thinker synthesized causal interaction and the nomological character of causality in a paper claiming that the title occurrences are physically (10[1])realized but irreducible. In a thought experiment by this philosopher, a lightning strike (10[3])creates a being (10[3])who is identical (10[1])to him (10[2]-5[1])but who nonetheless can produce no thoughts. For 10 points, (10[1])name this philosopher who developed anomalous monism in “Mental Events” and formulated the Swampman. ■END■ (0[10])

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