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Eliminativism and the Problem of Epiphenomenalism [PDF]

, 2000
In Chapter 8 it was argued that the token identity theory is not only false, but proves ultimately to be unintelligible, when it is conceived of as a general theory of the nature of mind, i.e., as a theory which is intended to encompass such ...
Helen Steward
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Consciousness Multiplied

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that an ordinary human brain is associated with a single mind. Indeed, this assumption is so deeply rooted that it is rarely articulated explicitly, let alone questioned. However, as philosophers of mind have increasingly noticed, it turns out to rest on alarmingly shaky ground.
James H. McIntyre
wiley   +1 more source

Obliczeniowe teorie świadomości (Computational theories of consciousness) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010
In this paper, I review the motivations for having a computational theory of consciousness to see if they turn out to be no longer plausible in the light of recent criticisms.
Marcin Miłkowski
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Causal Emergence and Epiphenomenal Emergence [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 2018
According to one conception of strong emergence, strongly emergent properties are nomologically necessitated by their base properties and have novel causal powers relative to them. In this paper, I raise a difficulty for this conception of strong emergence, arguing that these two features (i.e., nomological necessitation and causal novelty) are ...
openaire   +3 more sources

A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adapts and applies existing indicators to measure the complexity of German migration policy over time. Building on recent scholarship that conceptualizes migration policy as multidimensional, I adapt a measurement strategy from the EUPLEX Project to capture three key components of regulatory complexity: structural, linguistic, and ...
Pau Palop‐García
wiley   +1 more source

Getting Rid of Interventions [PDF]

, 2012
According to James Woodward’s influential interventionist account of causation, X is a cause of Y iff, roughly, there is a possible intervention on X that changes Y. Woodward requires that interventions be merely logically possible.
Reutlinger, Alexander, Alexander Reutlinger   +1 more
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Cultural geography of heat: Artistic experiments with heat’s animacies

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.
A sustained, cultural geographical engagement with heat is long overdue. I advance this agenda by engaging with the work of contemporary artists. Artists are responding to uneven conditions of global heating by exploring heat’s animacies: how heat interweaves with the practices and textures of life.
Sasha Engelmann
wiley   +1 more source

On James's argument against epiphenomenalism [PDF]

Epiphenomenalism is the doctrine that mental states lack causal efficacy. A common objection against epiphenomenalism is that this makes it mysterious how or why mental states ever evolved.
John Wright (21273701)
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The Lawful Shadow: Nomological Epiphenomenalism [PDF]

This paper defends Nomological Epiphenomenalism, a framework in which consciousness is a fundamental, non-causal property lawfully instantiated by specific physical architectures.
Shtrezi, Orion
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From biology to physics and the unknown: What would it mean to understand consciousness?

Academia Biology
The three main ideas of the relation between the brain and the mind, Cartesian dualism, epiphenomenalism and brain–mind identity theory are critically reviewed.
Charles Capaday
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