My preferred solution to the Conceivability Argument against physicalism about the mind involves a departure from the truth of analytic functionalism about the mind: the so-called conditional concepts strategy. This makes functionalism (probably) true, but no longer a priori: what’s analytic is not functionalism, but a conditional which has the truth of functionalism in its consequent.

This paper explores a new strategy which will have similar benefits to my own, but allows analytic functionalists to still hold that there view about consciousness and experience is analytic. I do this by invoking a similar conditional analysis about the underlying nature of causation while leaving the story about mental states unconditional.