What do we make of versatile stars like Willie Mays who "play all the fields"? Are they "neutral monists," roaming the outfield of what William James called pure experience?
Belief that both mental and physical properties are the features of substances of a single sort, which are themselves ultimately neither mental nor physical. In distinct varieties, neutral monism was defended by James and Russell.
Recommended Reading: William James: Writings 1902-1910, ed. by Bruce Kuklick (Lib. of Am., 1988); The Cambridge Companion to William James, ed. by Ruth Anna Putnam (Cambridge, 1997); Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy (St. Augustine, 1997); and Mafizuddin Ahmed, Bertrand Russell's Neutral Monism.
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