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Consciousness and its hard problems: separating the ontological from the evolutionary
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Few of the many theories devised to account for consciousness are explicit about the role they ascribe to evolution, and a significant fraction, by their silence on the subject, treat evolutionary processes as being, in effect, irrelevant.
Thurston Lacalli
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Given that disparate mind/body views have interfered with interdisciplinary research in psychoanalysis and neuroscience, the mind/body problem itself is explored here. Adding a philosophy of mind framework, problems for both dualists and physicalists are
Linda A. W. Brakel +2 more
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Questioning the causal inheritance principle
Theoria, 2010 Mental causation, though a forceful intuition embedded in our commonsense psychology, is difficult to square with the rest of commitments of physicalism about the mind.
Ivar Allan Hannikainen
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Socioeconomic disparities in suicide: Causation or confounding?
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDespite an overall reduction in suicide, educational disparities in suicide have not decreased over the last decade. The mechanisms behind educational disparities in suicide, however, remain unclear: low educational status may increase the risk
Vincent Lorant +3 more
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Self-, Social-, or Neural-Determination? [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019 Human “free will” has been made problematic by several recent arguments against mental causation, the unity of the I or “self,” and the possibility that conscious decision-making could be temporally prior to action.
Lawrence Cahoone
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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.
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Two Distinctions That Help to Chart the Interplay Between Conscious and Unconscious Volition
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Research initiated by Benjamin Libet suggests that short-term conscious intentions are not the onsets of bodily actions. However, other research, particularly on longer-term intentions, seems to show that at least some conscious intentions are effective.
Marc Slors
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Crítica, 2019 So far no clear explication of the notion of realization has been offered, in spite of the frequent uses of the notion in the literature to discharge important jobs, such as that of accounting for the causal efficacy of the mental in a physical world ...
Giovanna Hendel
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Causal Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience: Implications for Psychiatry
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2016 In this paper we investigate to what extent it is justified to draw conclusions about causal relations between brain states and mental states from cognitive neuroscience studies.
Nadine Dijkstra, Leon De Bruin
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