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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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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.
Angel Ponew +6 more
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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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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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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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