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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mental causation"”.
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Potency & Process: A Naturalistic Defense of Mental Causation
… physicalism precludes the possibility of robust mental causation. "Exclusion arguments" of the sort offered by Jaegwon Kim present the physicalist with an apparent dilemma: either all putatively "mental" causation reduces to mere "bottom-up" causation, or else it is epiphenomenal. However, the …
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The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?
Mental causation is with us all the time. Being a table is different from being a human---although we are composed of physical particles, we have understanding, reason, or perception, which are able to make a difference in the physical world. In this dissertation, I have detail discussions of …
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Mechanistic and psychological explanations of behaviour: the problem of mental causation
… problem we are going to investigate is that of mental causation. Human beings often explain to each other why they do what they do by citing their reasons, that is, mental states like beliefs and desires. Explanations of behaviour which invoke mental causes are known as psychological …
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Causal efficacy and externalist mental content
Internalism about mental content is the view that microphysical duplicates must be mental duplicates as well. This dissertation develops and defends the idea that only a strong version of internalism is compatible with our commonsense commitment to mental causation. Chapter one defends a novel …
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The role of transcendental arguments in Searle's inclusive theory of meaning
… has encountered trying to establish a theory of mental and linguistic meaning come from a failure to properly interpret the relation between his notion of 'Background' and his theory of Intentionality. The present thesis interprets Searle's theory of meaning as naturally following from this …
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The realiser-realiser identity theory of mind
… by conceivability arguments, the problem of mental causation, the problem of multiple realisation of the mental and the correlation between the mental and the physical properties. Chapter I is an introductory chapter where I present my view and compare it with all the standard answers to the …
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The realiser-realiser identity theory of mind
… by conceivability arguments, the problem of mental causation, the problem of multiple realisation of the mental and the correlation between the mental and the physical properties. Chapter I is an introductory chapter where I present my view and compare it with all the standard answers to the …
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All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism
… is a long-standing problem of how it is that mental properties can cause physical events given that it is widely accepted in the scientific community that every physical event has a sufficient completely physical cause. MTN solves this problem by explaining how microphysical properties and …