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Illusionism on Mind Problem [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Nowadays, theories of the philosophy of mind, are divided into illusionist and non-illusionist. In relation to the Mind Problem (MP), Illusionism of Soul (IS) considers soul and all of the unphysical-mental events (like immaterial personal identity, non ...
Siamak Abdollahi, Mansour Nasiri
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Superweniencja – pytanie o trywialność [PDF]

Avant, 2011
When it comes to the mind-body problem, different kinds of physicalism were the most popular approaches among philosophers. The presence of anomalous monism with its lack of (the) laws concerning mental events and multiple realizability led to a doubt ...
Błażej Brzostek
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Theology and Neuroscience

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
Neuroscience, the fastest growing scientific discipline for decades, has affected numerous aspects of Western culture. Thus, one should expect it to have influences on religion as well.
Nancey Murphy, Warren S. Brown
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Pairing Problems: Causal and Christological

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2021
Trenton Merricks has objected to dualist conceptions of the Incarnation in a similar way to Jaegwon Kim’s pairing problem. On the original pairing problem, so argues Kim, we lack a pairing relationship between bodies and souls such that body A is ...
Wong Kevin W.
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From Here to Theology: Response to Joshua Farris

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023
Joshua Farris usefully applies my distinction between conditioned and de-conditioned philosophy to some limits of science, and the disclosure of the soul.
Stephen Priest
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THE MYSTERIANISM OF OWEN FLANAGAN'S NORMATIVE MIND SCIENCE

Zygon, 2018
This article critically analyzes Owen Flanagan's physicalism and attempt at deriving ethical normativity from current neuroscience. It is argued that neurophysicalism, despite Flanagan's harsh critique of “the new mysterians,” entails a form of ...
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Ensouled Identity: Deconditioning Philosophy and Unconditioned Theology

Diacovensia, 2023
The nature of personal identity is ultimately theological in nature. Through a survey of some of the recent philosophical evidence for the soul (in the analytic philosophical tradition), the following lays out reasons for why personal identity is ...
Joshua Farris
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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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The Meta-Dynamic Nature of Consciousness

Entropy, 2020
How, if at all, consciousness can be part of the physical universe remains a baffling problem. This article outlines a new, developing philosophical theory of how it could do so, and offers a preliminary mathematical formulation of a physical grounding ...
John A. Barnden
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The Quest to Solve Problems That Don’t Exist: Thought Artifacts in Contemporary Ontology

Studia Humana, 2017
Questions about the nature of reality and consciousness remain unresolved in philosophy today, but not for lack of hypotheses. Ontologies as varied as physicalism, microexperientialism and cosmopsychism enrich the philosophical menu.
Kastrup Bernardo
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