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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, Eßfeld Michael
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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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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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, 2019 This book presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. It will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. This book is also available as Open Access.
Matej Kobašlić
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Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology, 2023 The article analyzes the issue of mental causation from the point of view of linguistics and simultaneouslyit discusses the interaction of languages, the influence of one language on another.In most sources, mental causation is interpreted as an object of investigation of analytic philosophy.But in our current work, we analyzed mentality based on the ...
Turniyozov Bekhzod Nigmatovich
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Mental Causation and the Causal Completeness of Physics
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2002 This paper takes issue with a widely accepted view of mental causation. This is the view that mental causation is either reducible to physical causation or ultimately untenable, because incompatible with the causal completeness of physics The paper ...
Wilson Mendonça
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Mental Causation for Mind-Body Dualists
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015 Interactive dualism is notorious for supporting genuine and autonomous mental causation that is allegedly impossible for its confliction with basic principles of physics.
Antonella Corradini
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The Metaphysics of Mental Causation [PDF]
Journal of Philosophy, 2006 Macdonald, Cynthia, Macdonald, G.
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Mental Causation and Exclusion: Why the Difference-making Account of Causation is No Help
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015 Peter Menzies has developed a novel version of the exclusion principle that he claims to be compatible with the possibility of mental causation. Menzies proposes to frame the exclusion principle in terms of a difference-making account of causation ...
José Luis Bermúdez, Arnon Cahen
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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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