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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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Against explanatory minimalism in psychiatry [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2015
The idea that psychiatry contains, in principle, a series of levels of explanation has been criticised both as empirically false but also, by Campbell, as unintelligible because it presupposes a discredited pre-Humean view of causation.
Tim eThornton
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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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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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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

, 2018
Questo articolo si propone di fornire una breve panoramica del problema della causazione mentale e delle soluzioni proposte attualmente. La causazione mentale risulta infatti uno dei più difficili enigmi della filosofia della mente. Nelle prime due sezioni, offriamo una descrizione del problema e del dibattito filosofico su di esso, e mostriamo come il
Giorgi, Rodolfo, Lavazza, Andrea
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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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Kim on Causation and Mental Causation [PDF]

, 2018
Jaegwon Kim’s views on mental causation and the exclusion argument are evaluated systematically. Particular attention is paid to different theories of causation.
Raatikainen, Panu
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