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West Chester University Philosophical Society West Chester University Philosophical Society The Philosophy Forum is a venue for faculty to present research to the members of the club and the general WCU audience. Faculty from any department may present, as long as the research is appropriately related to philosophy. Students are encouraged to approach faculty about this opportunity. Ask your favorite 'prof' to present. Interested faculty presenters should contact The mind, the body and the messenger, Bruno Garofalo Tuesday, March 24th, 3:15-4:45pm, Sykes Student Union, Room 209 DESCRIPTION: I will argue that reduction of mental to physical is, in spite of its apparent analogy with reduction of a natural science like for instance molecular biology to quantum mechanics, a completely different problem. Not even the most trivial physical event is immune to some form of conceptualization, so we must seek for a different explanation of what we mean by the mental-physical dichotomy. The dichotomy becomes internal to individual perspectives. If this is correct, any knowledge (folk and/or scientific knowledge) is susceptible to psychological explanation in a way explained as the final part of the paper.