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Mental causation: a defence [PDF]
, 2011 If we accept causal exclusion, property dualism and physical determinism, mental epiphenomenalism follows. Accord-ing to Yablo (1992), we can save mental causation by rejecting causal exclusion and considering the mental/physical relation as an instance of the determinable/determinate relation.
Bacchini, Fabio
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Causation and Mental Causation: Standpoints and Intersections
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015 Causation has been widely investigated in the recent philosophy of science and theories have been proliferating over the last decades. At the same time, the problem of mental causation has played a pivotal role in recent debates in the philosophy of mind.
Raffaella Campaner, Carlo Gabbani
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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.
Angel Ponew +6 more
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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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Laws, Causation and Dynamics at Different Levels [PDF]
, 2011 I have two main aims. The first is general, and more philosophical (Section 2). The second is specific, and more closely related to physics (Sections 3 and 4).
Butterfield, Jeremy, Jeremy Butterfield
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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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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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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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