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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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A Non-Reductionist Solution to the Problem of Social Causation [PDF]
The thesis of the causal closure of the physical world renders mental and social causation philosophically problematic. In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle offers a partial solution to the problem of the causal efficacy of social and ...
A. dos S. Gouvea, Rodrigo
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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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Consciousness and its hard problems: separating the ontological from the evolutionary
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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Morse, Mind, and Mental Causation [PDF]
Stephen Morse’s illuminating scholarship on law and neuroscience relies on a “folk psychological” account of human behavior in order to defend the law’s foundations for ascribing legal responsibility. The heart of Morse’s account is the notion of “mental
Pardo, Michael S., Patterson, Dennis
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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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Employment status and income as potential mediators of educational inequalities in population mental health [PDF]
We assessed whether educational inequalities in mental health may be mediated by employment status and household income. Poor mental health was assessed using General Health Questionnaire ‘caseness’ in working age adult participants (N = 48 654) of the ...
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal +2 more
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Questioning the causal inheritance principle
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
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?
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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