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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"epiphenomenalism"”.
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Essence, Revelation, and Physicalism
… as a solution to worries about the alleged epiphenomenalism of phenomenal properties.
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Mechanism and rationality : the case for explanatory incompatibilism
… account of rational action and it also leads to epiphenomenalism. In Chapter Four the author discusses the "Physicalist" approach to the question of compatibility as advocated by Alvin Goldman and Donald Davidson. But this version of compatibilism is found to be wanting because it also leads to …
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The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?
… mental causation autonomous and also avoids epiphenomenalism.
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The Problem of Evil as the Problem of Pain
… the incompatibility of theism with both epiphenomenalism and zombies-informed dualism. In the third chapter I begin with a discussion of mental supervenience in order to defend a commonsense modal intuition necessary for the success of my argument. I then proceed to address possible …
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Potency & Process: A Naturalistic Defense of Mental Causation
It has been argued extensively in contemporary philosophy of mind and neuroscience that 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" …