Yang Ping, Zhang Xinyue, Song Hongwen, Zhang Xiaochu
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China.
School of Mental Health and Psychological Science, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med. 2025 May 8;20(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s13010-025-00174-2.
The exploration into the origin of human spirituality has always been a hot spot with many unsolved questions in the philosophy of mind, and issues concerning mental illness and its comorbidities are still unclear. In the 1970s, Donald Davidson first proposed anomalous monism with the supervenience concept, a theory that both insists on physicalism and transcends traditional reductionism. This theory provides solid and accessible proof for perceiving the mind-body relationship of spiritual origin in a non-reductionist approach. This paper develops arguments in two aspects. First, three principles of anomalous monism are employed to explore the origin of mental illness. Second, the comorbidity of mental illness is explained with the help of the supervenience theory.
对人类精神性起源的探索一直是心灵哲学中一个存在诸多未解问题的热点，而有关精神疾病及其共病的问题仍不明确。20世纪70年代，唐纳德·戴维森首次提出带有随附性概念的异常一元论，这一理论既坚持物理主义又超越了传统的还原论。该理论为以非还原论方法理解精神起源的身心关系提供了坚实且易懂的证据。本文从两个方面展开论证。第一，运用异常一元论的三条原则来探究精神疾病的起源。第二，借助随附性理论来解释精神疾病的共病现象。
