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1. What is the difference between materialism and epiphenomenalism?

2. What are the basic characteristics of identity theory? What is Shafer’s objection to it based on the question of the coextension of mental and physical events in space?

3. One objection to dualism is that the nature of thoughts and other mental entities is perplexing and obscure. How does Shafer weaken this criticism?