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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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Synthese, 2019
Any theory of mind needs to explain mental causation. Kim’s (upward) exclusion argument concludes that non-reductive physicalism cannot meet this challenge. One classic reply is that mental properties capture the causally relevant level of generality, because they are insensitive to physical realization. However, this reply suggests downward exclusion (
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Any theory of mind needs to explain mental causation. Kim’s (upward) exclusion argument concludes that non-reductive physicalism cannot meet this challenge. One classic reply is that mental properties capture the causally relevant level of generality, because they are insensitive to physical realization. However, this reply suggests downward exclusion (
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Counterfactual Causation and Mental Causation
Philosophia, 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.
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2018
Mental causation occurs when mental entities cause other mental and physical entities: seeings causing believings, itches causing scratchings, headaches causing eye twitches, and so on. The term “mental causation” is most often used to refer to the problem of mental causation, which is really a collection of problems with each possessing its own ...
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Mental causation occurs when mental entities cause other mental and physical entities: seeings causing believings, itches causing scratchings, headaches causing eye twitches, and so on. The term “mental causation” is most often used to refer to the problem of mental causation, which is really a collection of problems with each possessing its own ...
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2009
Abstract The problem of mental causation is essentially coeval with the mind–body problem. Descartes arguably invented the latter when, in Meditation 2, he asked ‘But what then am I?’ to which he replied ‘A thing which thinks’, and then went on to argue, in Meditation 6, that ‘it is certain that this I is entirely and absolutely distinct
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Abstract The problem of mental causation is essentially coeval with the mind–body problem. Descartes arguably invented the latter when, in Meditation 2, he asked ‘But what then am I?’ to which he replied ‘A thing which thinks’, and then went on to argue, in Meditation 6, that ‘it is certain that this I is entirely and absolutely distinct
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Realization and mental causation
2000Abstract The problem of mental causation is at the heart of the mind-body problem. And for physicalist or materialist views of mind, the key to solving the problem of mental causation is getting a satisfactory understanding of how the mental is realized in the physical.
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Causation and Mental Causation
2015Causation 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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2004
Abstract One of the residual problems left to us from dualism is the problem of mental causation. Our first mind-body problem was, How can physical processes ever cause mental processes? But to many philosophers the other half of the question is even more pressing, How can anything as ethereal and insubstantial as mental processes ever ...
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Abstract One of the residual problems left to us from dualism is the problem of mental causation. Our first mind-body problem was, How can physical processes ever cause mental processes? But to many philosophers the other half of the question is even more pressing, How can anything as ethereal and insubstantial as mental processes ever ...
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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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Why incompatibilism about mental causation is incompatible with non-reductive physicalism
Inquiry (United Kingdom), 2022Umut Baysan
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