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El fisicalismo no reduccionista y su problema con la causalidad mental

Ideas y Valores, 2014
El texto que se traduce es “The Nonreductivist’s Troubles with Mental Causation”. Mental Causation. Eds. John Heil y Alfred Mele. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 189-210.
Jaegwon Kim, Juan Diego Morales (trad.)
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The Causal Relevance and Heterogeneity of Program Explanations in the Face of Explanatory Exclusion [PDF]

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008
In everyday causal explanations of human behaviour, known generally as folk psychology,' the causal powers of the mental seem to be taken for granted. Mental properties such as perceptions, beliefs, and desires, are all called upon in causal explanations
Wilson Cooper
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The Causal Exclusion Argument and its Critique in Debates on Reductionism: The Case of One Specific Clash [PDF]

Философия и космология
One of the modern forms of philosophical discussion about the essence of mentality is the dispute between (“classical”) physicalists (who take a reductionist position) and the so-called non-reductive materialists.
Oleksandr Holubenko
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Qua‐Talk and Other Forms of Quackery: Part One

Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The Latin term “qua” is used occasionally in ordinary discourse but more often as a philosophical term of art. Its purpose is sometimes to avoid what would otherwise be contradictions, as in “necessarily two‐legged qua cyclist, contingently two‐legged qua mathematician.” In this paper, I identify and clarify several of the philosophical uses ...
James Van Cleve
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FOCUS ON Religious Ethics and AI: Introduction to the Focus Issue

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 164-171, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Does religious ethics have anything meaningful to say about the many difficult metaphysical, ethical, and theological questions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI)? The four articles featured in this Focus Issue suggest that it does. Mariele Courtois's essay focuses on the cultivation of prudence as a necessary virtue for the moral life ...
Kevin Jung
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Augustine, AI, and the Two Models of Language

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 217-238, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the two models of language articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Augustine. It examines first, the central roles of language in humans and intelligent machines, and second, the implications of these models for understanding what it means to be human, as well as the promises and limits of AI systems.
Kevin Jung
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Thing causation

Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 1050-1072, December 2024.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something.
Nathaniel Baron‐Schmitt
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Acting as causing change

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 644-658, September 2024.
Abstract The paper defends a version of the view that agency is a causal power, the “causing view.” After sketching the view, and explaining how it differs from its rivals, various challenges are assessed. A family of objections says that causing change is neither necessary nor sufficient for acting.
Maria Alvarez
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Donald Davidson seria um epifenomenalista?

Kalagatos, 2016
Neste artigo, exporemos e problematizaremos o monismo anômalo de Donald Davidson, destacando as ideias críticas de Jaegwon Kim a este respeito. As objeções ao monismo anômalo de Davidson que exporemos, teria como eixo central a ideia de que Davidson ...
Daniel Luporini de Faria
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Emergence and Reflexive Downward

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2002
This paper responds to Jaegwon Kim's powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties Kim argue that the incoherence of reflexive downward causation means that the causal power of an emergent phenomenon is ultimately ...
John Symons
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