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Psychological Inquiry, 22: 88–99, 2011 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2010.550183 Alternative Perspectives in Philosophy of Mind and Their Relationship to Structural Equation Models in Psychology Richard P. Bagozzi Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Kievit and colleagues (this issue) consider the re- lower level of organization). (Brigandt & Love, 2008, para. 1) lationship between “neurological and behavioral mea- sures” within the context of two approaches from the philosophy of mind: identity theory and supervenience Eliminativism is graphically depicted in the left of theory. Kievit et al. assert that “the reduction problem Panel A in Figure 1. Eliminativism “is the radical claim ...is a measurement problem” and “identity theory that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the and supervenience theory, can be easily translated into mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental psychometric models” (p. 67). states posited by common-sense do not actually exist” The relationship between different perspectives in (Ramsey, 2007, para. 1). Eliminativists in psychology the philosophy of mind and psychometric models is a assert that there are no mental states or events but rather very important one, and to the