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Mental causation: an evolutionary perspective. [PDF]
Front PsycholThe 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.
Lacalli T.
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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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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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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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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundMental health professionals are often affected by mental health problems and disorders. Yet, the effects of these lived experiences on their causal beliefs and health concepts have not been investigated.
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