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Grounding, mental causation, and overdetermination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Recently, Kroedel and Schulz have argued that the exclusion problem—which states that certain forms of non-reductive physicalism about the mental are committed to systematic and objectionable causal overdetermination—can be solved by appealing to ...
Clark, Michael J., Wildman, Nathan
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Realization

open access: yesCrítica, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Self-, Social-, or Neural-Determination? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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Causal Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience: Implications for Psychiatry

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2016
In this paper we investigate to what extent it is justified to draw conclusions about causal relations between brain states and mental states from cognitive neuroscience studies.
Nadine Dijkstra, Leon De Bruin
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Adaptivity and truth. A critique of Plantinga’s reasoning against evolutionary reliabilism

open access: yesFilosofický časopis, 2021
The paper analyses the arguments put forward by Plantinga to justify his refutation of evolutionary reliabilism, i.e. the claim that the probability that the cognitive faculties, developed in the process of unguided evolution, are reliable is low.
Fábiková, Andrea
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Similarities and Differences between Emergentism and Mulla Sadra’s Psychology [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت صدرایی, 2019
This paper - in order to make a comparative study between Sadra’s theory and a new western theory about soul’s occurrence - first focuses on studying and explaining a new theory in philosophy of mind; called “Emergentism” by contemporary philosophers ...
Mahdi Homazadeh Abyaneh
doaj   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dispositional explanations in dualism [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2013
In order to defend mental explanations dualists may appeal to dispositions (powers). By accepting a powers theory of causation, a dualist can more plausibly defend mental explanations that are given independently of physical explanations ...
Nešić Janko
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Mental causation: a defence [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
Bacchini, Fabio
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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