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Mental causation: an evolutionary perspective [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
The 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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Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Causation [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 2007
The paper argues for four claims: (1) The problem of mental causation and the argument for its solution in terms of the identity of mental with physical causes are independent of the theory of causation one favours. (2) If one considers our experience of agency as described by folk psychology to be veridical, one is committed to an anti-Humean ...
Michael Eßfeld
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The causal efficacy of consciousness: a neuroscientific analysis and explanation [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
This study analyzes neural and behavioral events occurring before, during, and after the emergence of a pain quale and the consciousness of that pain to examine the causal efficacy of the quale and consciousness.
Chirapat Ukachoke
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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021
Great naturalist philosophers like David Armstrong, David Papineau, Jeagwon Kim, and others have argued that the best arguments for naturalism are based on Physical Causal Closure (in brief P.C). P.C that is a premise in these arguments implies that only
Nima Narimani
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Trope Mental Causation: Still Not Qua Mental

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022
A popular solution to the causal exclusion problem in the non-reductive physicalist camp is the trope identity solution. But this solution is haunted by the “quausation problem” which charges that the trope only confers causal powers qua physical, not ...
Wenjun Zhang
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A double face view on mind-brain relationship: the problem of mental causation

Trans/Form/Ação, 2023
: Interpreting results of contemporary neuroscientif studies, I present a non-reductive physicalist account of mind-brain relationship from which the criticism of unintelligibility ascribed to the notion of mental causation is considered. Assuming that a
Jonas Gonçalves Coelho
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Mental Causation [PDF]

Analysis, 2014
How could mental entities causally affect, or be affected by, physical entities? Identifying a relationship between mental and physical entities that is both consistent with their causal interaction and independently plausible is one of the perennial problems in the philosophy of mind.
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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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Rationality, mental causation and social sciences [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of mental causation in the context of rational choice theory. The author defends psychological aspect of rational explanation against the challenge of contemporary reductive materialism.
Mladenović Ivan
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The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness

Entropy, 2020
Mental causation is vitally important to the integrated information theory (IIT), which says consciousness exists since it is causally efficacious.
Matthew Owen
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