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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adaptivity and truth. A critique of Plantinga’s reasoning against evolutionary reliabilism
Filosofický časopis, 2021 The paper analyses the arguments put forward by Plantinga to justify his refutation of evolutionary reliabilism, i.e. the claim that the probability that the cognitive faculties, developed in the process of unguided evolution, are reliable is low.
Fábiková, Andrea
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Similarities and Differences between Emergentism and Mulla Sadra’s Psychology [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2019 This paper - in order to make a comparative study between Sadra’s theory and a new western theory about soul’s occurrence - first focuses on studying and explaining a new theory in philosophy of mind; called “Emergentism” by contemporary philosophers ...
Mahdi Homazadeh Abyaneh
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