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Free Will, Determinism, and Epiphenomenalism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This paper articulates a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian kind of free will—a kind of free will that's incompatible with both determinism and epiphenomenalism—and responds to scientific arguments against the existence of this sort of freedom.
Mark Balaguer, Balaguer Mark
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Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Scientific Epiphenomenalism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This article addresses two influential lines of argument for what might be termed “scientific epiphenomenalism” about conscious intentions – the thesis that neither conscious intentions nor their physical correlates are among the causes of bodily motions
Alfred Mele, Mele Alfred R
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Epiphenomenalism and the Epistemic Argument [PDF]
Acta Analytica, 2023 AbstractThe epistemic argument against epiphenomenalism aims to prove that even if epiphenomenalism is true, its adherents are not able to justify their inferential beliefs. This would mean that they cannot know that they are right which is a self-stultifying consequence.
Jan Rostek
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Epiphenomenalism for Functionalists [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter focuses on an assumption implicitly made by most recent attempts to solve the exclusion problem for mental causation, that mental (and so multiply realized) properties are ‘distinct existences’ from their alleged effects. Without that assumption, no such solution can work, since we have excellent grounds for thinking that there is no ...
Beebee, Helen, Helen Beebee, Beebee, H.
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Psychological Epiphenomenalism [PDF]
Journal of Consciousness StudiesResearchers in the psychological sciences have put forward the thesis that various sources of psychological, cognitive, and neuroscientific evidence demonstrate that being conscious of our mental states does not make any difference to our behaviour.
Darryl Mathieson
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Mental causation: an evolutionary perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe relationship between consciousness and individual agency is examined from a bottom-up evolutionary perspective, an approach somewhat different from other ways of dealing with the issue, but one relevant to the question of animal consciousness.
Thurston Lacalli
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On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In this essay, we aim to counter and qualify the epiphenomenalist challenge proposed in this special issue on the grounds of empirical and theoretical arguments.
Roy F. Baumeister +5 more
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Religions, 2021 Paul Draper argues that the central issue in the debate over the problem of suffering is not whether the theist can offer a probable explanation of suffering, but whether theism or naturalism can give a better explanation for the facts regarding the ...
James D. Madden
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Why Cognitive Sciences Do Not Prove That Free Will Is an Epiphenomenon [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Is epiphenomenalism virtually entailed by the current empirical knowledge about how the mind/brain causes human behavior? I'll address this question by highlighting that recent discoveries in empirical psychology and neuroscience actually do not strike ...
Andrea Lavazza
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The How and Why of Consciousness? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Tim S. Meese
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