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, 2009 Mental causation is the causation of physical effects by mental causes. The paradigm case of mental causation is the causation of someone’s bodily movement by a mental state or event of hers.
Cei Maslen, Terence Horgan
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Mental causation as multiple causation
Philosophical Studies, 2007The paper argues that mental causation can be explained from the sufficiency of counterfactual dependence for causation together with relatively weak assumptions about the metaphysics of mind. If a physical event counterfactually depends on an earlier physical event, it also counterfactually depends on, and hence is caused by, a mental event that ...
Thomas Kroedel
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SynthÈse, 2015
This paper argues that the exclusion problem for mental causation can be solved by a variant of non-reductive physicalism that takes the mental not merely to supervene on, but to be grounded in, the physical. A grounding relation between events can be used to establish a principle that links the causal relations of grounded events to those of grounding
Thomas Kroedel, Moritz Schulz
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This paper argues that the exclusion problem for mental causation can be solved by a variant of non-reductive physicalism that takes the mental not merely to supervene on, but to be grounded in, the physical. A grounding relation between events can be used to establish a principle that links the causal relations of grounded events to those of grounding
Thomas Kroedel, Moritz Schulz
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Disproportional mental causation
SynthÈse, 2010In this paper I do three things. First, I argue that Stephen Yablo’s influential account of mental causation is susceptible to counterexamples involving what I call disproportional mental causation. Second, I argue that similar counterexamples can be generated for any alternative account of mental causation that is like Yablo’s in that it takes mental ...
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Counterfactual Causation and Mental Causation
Philosophia (United States), 2013Counterfactual conditionals have been appealed to in various ways to show how the mind can be causally efficacious. However, it has often been overestimated what the truth of certain counterfactuals actually indicates about causation. The paper first identifies four approaches that seem to commit precisely this mistake.
Jens Harbecke
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Causation and Mental Causation
, 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.
CAMPANER, RAFFAELLA, Gabbani, Carlo
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Think, 1999
When we explain someone's behaviour, we do so by appealing to their mental states – their beliefs, desires, and so on. But, as Fred Dretske explains below, materialists have a hard time explaining how our mental states could have any effect on our behaviour.
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When we explain someone's behaviour, we do so by appealing to their mental states – their beliefs, desires, and so on. But, as Fred Dretske explains below, materialists have a hard time explaining how our mental states could have any effect on our behaviour.
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Общенациональный интерактивный энциклопедический портал "Знания", 2022
This article aims to provide a brief overview of mental causation problem and its current proposed solutions. Indeed, mental causation turns out as one of the most difficult philosophical conundrums in contemporary philosophy of mind. In the first two sections, we offer an outline of the problem and the philosophical debate about it, and show that ...
Giorgi, Rodolfo, Lavazza, Andrea
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This article aims to provide a brief overview of mental causation problem and its current proposed solutions. Indeed, mental causation turns out as one of the most difficult philosophical conundrums in contemporary philosophy of mind. In the first two sections, we offer an outline of the problem and the philosophical debate about it, and show that ...
Giorgi, Rodolfo, Lavazza, Andrea
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The Philosophical Review, 1992
Abstract Beliefs, desires, and other intentional attitudes figure prominently in everyday explanations of intentional human behavior. Sally went to New York, we say, because she believed that she would find her runaway son there. Sam left the lounge, we observe, because he wanted to avoid a quarrel with Sue.
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Abstract Beliefs, desires, and other intentional attitudes figure prominently in everyday explanations of intentional human behavior. Sally went to New York, we say, because she believed that she would find her runaway son there. Sam left the lounge, we observe, because he wanted to avoid a quarrel with Sue.
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